[Arm-netbook] AMD considering releasing the PSP

[Benson Mitchell]

On Mar 15, 2017 11:42 AM, "Bill Kontos" <vkontogpls at gmail.com> wrote:

How is that going to work and how will end users be able to know that they
can't plug a 5+ watt card on a incompatible housing ?

In the current standard, any card needing more than 5W must be a Type III
(that's ~double thickness), and all Type III housings are both electrically
and thermally capable of 10W. High-power card doesn't physically fit in
low-power slots.

Or do they negotiate over some bit so the card knows if it can boost beyond
5 watts or not ?

That's the idea with the upcoming revision -- by default, the limits still
apply (Type III cards 10W, Type I/II 5W), so you still can't make a Type II
card that needs 10W to run. But you can make a Type II card that meets the
5W limit by severe down-clocking; then a housing can offer CPU cards a
higher limit, allowing them to up-clock or use more cores.
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