The primary consequence of this (for consumers) is that the specs advertised on your phone ("octacore!") are
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Memory (RAM, not Flash) and price are the signals that most correlate with better mobile perf today. CPU part info takes multiple decoding steps to begin to grok: part brand name -> SoC variant -> actual architecture info (which needs specialist knowledge to understand)
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Relative price trends to correlate better to perf because it's so directly related to BOM costs and Android OEM margins are low.
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