ARM announced the other day that they are developing a new processor - A smartphone processor that is quad-core. Each of those cores runs at 2.5GHz.

That's fast enough with one core! It's 2.5GHz dedicated to a single application, which will make it blazingly fast! Multitasking will be incredibly smooth, with a core for the task and three spares for background tasks. 2.5GHz alone is almost triple the average today (around 900 probably). Putting this in perspective, that's almost as good as an Intel Core i7 from last year. Those things can't handle being in netbooks, let alone smartphones.

Moore's Law says that processing power doubles every 18 months; When the T-Mobile G1 came out it had a 512MHz processor, which was good for the time. Fast-forward 18 months, Android 2.2 is announced, and the highest power processor is 1GHz. Double 512MHz. When's 18 months from then? November next year. I'd expect a 2GHz processor, probably dual-core, by the end of 2011. The ARM A-15 (the name of this processor) comes out late 2012-early 2013. We'd expect 4GHz to arrive in May 2013, and thus the 2.5 would arrive at around January 2012. Maybe it isn't too impressive after all?

The future will be awesome.

Rav