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The TDP limits of smartphones (no more than ~10W) make them unuseable for heavier workstation loads, and there will always be demand for a lot of local computat
by erikj 10y ago
The TDP limits of smartphones (no more than ~10W) make them unuseable for heavier workstation loads, and there will always be demand for a lot of local computational power.
- MichaelGG 10y agoMost people don't run workstation loads, let alone anything remotely resembling "heavy".
- erikj 10y agoThe parent comment was talking about "every situation", not "most people".
- ZmFydA__ 10y agoI feel (hope :-)) that in the future, network bandwidth will be large enough that large, high-power general computation services can be used to offload intense processing tasks from personal devices to work around things like this. So, if you're on your phone and need to crunch a massive data-set, this gets offloaded to the big-datacruncher-in-the-cloud, and the result sent back to your device.
- erikj 10y agoBandwidth is only one part of the problem. Latency is another one, and it seems to be insurmountable with the modern network media.