You are definitely not thinking with embedded in mind. Everything you said applied perfectly to server chips, but not to the embedded world. The Silicon and p

You are definitely not thinking with embedded in mind. Everything you said applied perfectly to server chips, but not to the embedded world. The Silicon and power budgets are MUCH tighter and allocated very differently in embedded chips than in server CPUs. Most of the area on those chips isn't cache, or even memory. It's actually mostly peripherals, with significant area spent on the core itself. And there's a lot less Silicon total - a 7x7 mm die (50 square mm) is a huge embedded chip. Silicon spent on cores, even a tiny bit, is functionality your chip doesn't have.