liftedplane
Gold Member
it's not just about adding more cores because the clock speed has reached a practical point, it's about increasing efficiency, if they continue to raise the clock speed without making the TDP more efficient, they will end up creating processors that can only be cooled by liquid nitrogen.
not sure if you OC at all, but the only extremely effective way to overclock a cpu is by raising the multiplier, that creates more speed with very little heat increase, however to high of a multiplier and the ram cannot keep up, then you have to put a divider on the ram which can only go so high. you can then increase the "FSB" of the CPU to get more speed without affecting the ram much however then you have to start adding more volts onto the CPU which in turn creates more heat that needs to be dissipated. The dual cores they are creating now are literally hundreds of times more efficient than the first quad cores, making them do more with less... therefore they don't need to increase the clock speed.
as for bottlenecks with ram on android I found this Android Memory Analysis - Texas Instruments Embedded Processors Wiki which states at the bottom in the summary
meaning that while most companies add on to android, 1GB (especially the new ones running ddr2) is over 4 times the amount you need to run just the OS... I cannot think of any single app that would take the rest of that. android is incredibly efficient at multitasking, and with the community addons and optimizations (Th3ory roms version of unthrottled comes to mind) memory usage on 1GB ddr2 ram won't be an issue for quite some time. bump it up to 2gb, give us more storage space, and you're good to go.
So even if more ram would be more effective it probably would go unnoticed by the average user, all it would be doing is storing extra apps in the background. (giving an even weaker argument to task killers!) 
