[adamc]

But they want to sell as many cpus as possible, right? So that market wins.

[Sesse__]

You can easily buy such CPUs in the microcontroller market, just go ahead. They're being sold by the billions.

[adamc]

Presumably, performance also matters.

[Sesse__]

Well, if you say you don't want caching and speculation, then you've essentially given up on performance already. There's a reason why these small cores are slow.