Even when idle, extra cores still cost in terms of area (hence yield). So if you want to sell very cheap chrome books and such, that may not be attractive. Po

Even when idle, extra cores still cost in terms of area (hence yield). So if you want to sell very cheap chrome books and such, that may not be attractive. Power isn’t at as much of a premium in a laptop cpu (bigger battery and also bigger screen, more ram, etc. so that the CPU part of the power draw is proportionally less)