With this much processing power, it is totally possible for an iPhone working as a barebone computer.

I mean... they are.

Uhm.

What do you think an router has?

Or any other embedded device?

Yeah. It's on steroids compared to it, but it's still that.

Not even barbones, that chip can take on most laptops.

That's been possible for a while now, they've had more than enough horsepower for basic computing tasks for years.

Just comes down to whether it's marketed for that ;)

@IntrusionCM Well routers have kickass cam memory, specialized chips and etc ;)

But I digress into my old career ;)

@N00bPancakes Yeah.

But that's true for anything "chip" related.

X86 has it's weirdo extensions that prevent's it's death... And a lot of "insane" shit under the hood (Caching, TLBs, Micro Ops, ...)

ARM has no sanity. Everyone can hot glue a mainboard with it's own specifics and several (non-arm) chips together and an ARM processor together and call it a ARM platform... Linus had one very specific Rant about this *chuckles*

A smartphone is exactly that. Plus an LCD & battery. (Non-arm chips like camera, AI, networking if not included in ARM processor, ...).

So ... Duh?

In the end, everything is sand if you toast it hot enough xD

@IntrusionCM Everything is chips, but everything can't be something else effectively without the right chips ;)

I wonder when can we dock our phones with big monitors at work

@vicary already possible*