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I remain absolutely in awe of Nvidia's ability to sell $200 4+ year old CPUs. In this case a 4 year old 16nm+ process, put to use building an 8.5 year old basically Cortex A57 class core.

It's a huge huge huge shame, but not on Nvidia. On everyone else. On Qualcomm, on MediaTek, on literally every other company making arm cores. For not releasing chips in a useful fashion, for being everything the PC never was: for sale, to the public, competitive.

The PC was a revolution because it was made of bits & parts that each had their own markets, that had competition for them. Multiple companies competing to make interchangable ram, with interchangable cpus, with interchangable hard drives, power supplies, cases, peripherals. There was market pressure, a push towards commoditization. So far, the smaller, low powered chips have maintained a mainframe like status, as only for very very large customers. It's been an absolute shite 10 years, suffering this nonsense inability for anyone but the very biggest to get good mobile chips. Nvidia is simply capitalizing by offering the tiniest littlest most whatever offering possible, the flimsiest bone, to a hungry, enthusiast, excited market that will gladly accept paying far more for a little, old, cpu+ram than they would for a generation or two old complete cell phone that would perform far better at most tasks, and include a screen, wifi, cellular, speakers, sensors,...

The PC era was so so so glorious. That consumers could buy competitively priced parts was incredible. What's happened in the last 10 years has been so sad to see.