| Cobretti2 said: interesting debates so far on what people think it will be. |
I remember there was some talk around a patent for Supplemental Computing Devices (SCD) sometime ago.
But in hindsight it doesn't make too much practical sense on paper since it would mean creating and maintaining different production lines for 2 different chips (one for the console and one for the dock), designing and producing two different heating dispersion systems, and they would need to find a suitable connector for ensuring sufficient data bandwidth between the two processors.
In the end if the use case is the new next gen console, it would be a more effective solution to simply design and produce a more expensive chip on the console (for example using a single chip based on 5nm node rather than using 2 chips based on 8nm).
Even if the use case is simply extending the lifecycle of the current Switch 1 for TV users, it would make more sense to simply release TV-only version of the console that integrates both the CPU and a larger GPU on a single larger chip rather than connecting the Switch to a power dock with a smaller GPU chip.
Last edited by freebs2 - on 23 March 2022
