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From the official Motorola Blog: > "A module can be anything, from a new application processor to a new display or keyboard, an extra battery, a pulse oximeter
by kyro 13y ago
From the official Motorola Blog:
> "A module can be anything, from a new application processor to a new display or keyboard, an extra battery, a pulse oximeter--or something not yet thought of!" [1]
So it doesn't seem too-far removed from the original Phonebloks concept. And you can't really tell me that had this new version been presented as the original, we wouldn't have seen the same feedback.
[1] http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2013/10/goodbye-sticky-hello-ara.html http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2013/10/goodbye-sticky-hel...
- zanny 13y agoThe definition of what is "core" to a computer is nebulous at best. Nothing stops you from having a SOC mainboard with some flash memory and an embedded processor that can run on its own, with peripheral attachments to add in beefier hardware as need be. That is what PCI is for, after all. I think that may be one the largest failures of modern computing - we never built a hardware platform where just socketing (especially in a plug and play way) new processors, memory, busses etc was fluid and feasible. The performance penalties were always huge (albeit understandable with a monolithic virtual memory abstraction if you don't account for varying degrees of locality).