Because it brings in money whenever somebody uses the principle?

What I wrote here weeks/months ago. There is really no mystery to this patent. It's jut a way to collect money (like patents have become nowadays) if anyone goes the same/a similar route in the future.

Thanks, lol.

How are we only just hearing about this? The patent was filed in July!

No it doesn't, don't make up stuff just to contradict people when you can easily be disproven. Check the figures at Anandtech (Diablo 3 is one of those non-taxing games that are often used to benchmark laptops, incidentally. For example http://www.anandtech.com/show/5865/laptop-graphics-face-off-diablo-iii-performance/3 ) Anandtech figures show typically 20fps for laptops with 1080p monitors.

This isn't a rumor, SCEA actually filed this patent.

From what I understand this is all to make multi-tasking as easy and fast as possible.

You know how accessing the XMB while playing a PS3 game is extremely slow? The game is using up all the resources which is why the XMB is so low. With the PS4, one GPU will be dedicated to XMB/apps/etc while the other more powerful one is reserved for games only. This would make switching between an App and a game smooth as butter. This is exactly what the rumor from VG247 said about accessing the PS Store while in-game.

Sounds very promising.

Most people will avoid implementing patented tech in their products. They will find a work around. THAT is the point of patents, to make your products unique and prevent competitors from using techniques you invented.

Great news if true... Sony is walking in the right path.

APU for SO and others backgrounds stuffs
GPU dedicaded to games

That is in line with the Sony said before... the SO and background stuffs will not interfer in the games... the oposite to PS3 you can run a lot of apps while play a game without performance sacrifices.

Well i have the game and the laptop and it in fact does. It runs 60 frames a second with out issue, and we all know that my screen is higher than 1080P. So there's that, I don't need a website to tell me what frames persecond I'm running. Thank you.

Interesting stuff.

That makes me think how long will it be until a studio finds a way to use both GPUs for games, like use the discrete GPU for all the graphic stuff and use the integrated one for things like physics and AI.