Originally Posted by flipalong

dont forget that 2ghz phone that motorolla said would come out in 2011 http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/10/m...-end-so-do-we/

Originally Posted by Alex Atkin UK

Also I notice the A9 is out-of-order execution, that in itself makes its more efficient I believe.

I do not understand it exactly but its something along the lines of being able choose which command to execute next out of the queue (for efficiency) rather than being force to do them in the exact order they are in the queue.

Also lets not forget that with good power management and two cores it can always disable one core entirely if not needed, or clock them both down to insanely low speeds. I would think that with two cores it should make the process of switching from low to high speed a lot smoother to the end user, as any sudden need for CPU cycles is not going to bog down the CPU as badly.

Of course this is all assuming that they are improving the flash memory in the phones as well. It always seems to be IO that is the big problem as the flash in phones is barely any better than SD cards, a long way away from the speed SSDs or even HDDs can do. You can't help thinking they are deliberately holding back so they can sell us the next big thing every 12 months.