@tadano @mischievoustomato @dushman @hor32 @prettygood we're running out of the ability to pump more power into processors so as processes get smaller, its MUCH more advantageous to put a bunch of smaller RISC chips that do very specific things on one SoC than to have a general purpose processor that can do everything
Since you can't pump infinity watts of power into a processor, its much more efficient to have a separate "processor" for every instruction and just turn them on and off as needed. Allows you to only "use" 5% of the processor in any given cycle while still getting 100% of the on-paper efficiency