Originally Posted by tajoh111
I see a lot wrong with your assumptions on issues. For one, there are already dual socket systems used all the time. And processors have more than one core and work fine, its the same thing really. All you have to do is get Microsoft to integrate a driver into Windows so people dont have to worry about installing it manually, and this driver just lets Windows know to assign tasks to the highest speed processor that is available. Architecture wise wouldnt be different, you can have the super low power one made on the same Piledriver core as Trinity. Pretty much all AMD processors are moving to that architecture. The interconnect is already available and simple to do. AMD would need to make a proprietary connector for their interconnect to use, like all tablet docks currently do. And as for sharing the RAM, we already have enough bandwidth for the current CPUs as is, and you could probably just make the memory commands pass through the primary processor, instead of some complicated setup with multiple traces. It would add a little bit of latency, but not a ton. For graphics memory you could either use 512MB of vram inside the dock wired directly to the graphics cores or you can make it share RAM like all current setups do, it too wouldnt be a big deal. hard drive bandwidth isnt any different since the connection bandwidth is far greater than the slow performance of the integrated eMMC flash memory used in tablets. You would MAYBE lose a handful of IOps from the connection.
And no there wouldnt be two different OSes. Where did you even pull that from? The person you quoted also said Why pay $1200-1500 for a tablet AND a laptop, not each one costing that much. And Trinity may be "scoffed at" as a gaming solution, but it is vastly more powerful than the current line of graphics on tablets.
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