Call me a noob but...

[Shoseki]

Is it just me or do processors not seem to be getting any faster?

Surely not every application is going to take full advantage of having 4 cores per PC... why is it that they stopped making faster processors?

 

[Shoseki]

I don't get it though. The basis of upgrades now is... a huge paradigm shift in software development?

Not all problems scale well to multiple processors etc. Does windows XP even take proper advantage of multi-core? Do games? What if there aren't multiple cores?

And who made the decision... it was just mutual between amd/intel?

Just seems like everything stagnated. I haven't had to upgrade my PC in 2 years.