I suspect their end game is building machine learning features into the silicon. Most Chromebooks at the low price point use awful low-end intel CPUs that seem

I suspect their end game is building machine learning features into the silicon. Most Chromebooks at the low price point use awful low-end intel CPUs that seem unable to cope with opening more than 2 tabs at once. If Google can create a CPU that is competitive in performance and price to those terrible Intel based ones, but also chuck in some hardware assistance for ML inference on-device, they're likely on to a winner.