Re: Not an easy sell @tojb
I'm not quite sure you get the IoT, or how much CPU power you need for a given job.
1) a couple of hundred MHz CPU is plenty for an eReader. Look at what's in the Kindle.
2) You can handle touch screens with 8 bit CPUs, STM do a version of their Discovery board with a built in touch screen and a 180MHz ARM. It's plenty fast enough for anything an appliance would need.
3) a house would comprise a network of IoT devices. Non of them, nor the hub, need serious power to handle their job.
4) chromebooks are not IoT devices.
5) ICE doesn't need huge amounts of CPU either. The trend here is to make it little more than a smart screen for whatever latest and greatest smart device the user has bought. That way it won't lag behind over the lifetime of a car (10+ years).
6) you can get very cheap ARM based systems (the Orange Pi for example is a 4 core, 1.6GHz ARM A7 machine with 1GB of RAM, and costs £10). The cost of an external WiFi dongle is tiny. Unless you expect to see these in sub £20 devices then it's a non starter.