The Raspberry Pi is a testament to how advances in chip manufacturing, SOC technology, and economies of scale rapidly increase the amount of computing power you can get on a budget. The device has rapidly evolved from a single core 700 MHz ARMv6 in 2012 to a quad-core 1.5 GHz ARMv8 in 2019 while maintaining a comparable price for the base model. With the addition of RAM SKUs that go all the way to 8GB, the use cases for these miraculous devices keep expanding.
