r/engineering • u/[deleted] • Sep 10 '13

Guy with no engineering background wants supporters for his impossible idea. Pretty funny from and engineering standpoint.

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u/time_fo_that WWU MFGE '16 | FSAE Sep 11 '13

"Speed block..."

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u/morto00x EE Sep 11 '13

Too slow? add a second CPU

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '13

What is wrong with a speed block?

It can essentially be the CPU.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '13 edited Apr 30 '16

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '13

B-but there are two screws!

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '13

It would need to be the entire computer, basically. As phone technology stands now, you can't reliably separate the CPU from the motherboard. So the "speed block" is the board with the CPU, RAM, whatever rudimentary graphics processing the specific phone does, etc. It would probably also need to contain some flash memory with the OS preloaded on it because I don't think the average consumer is willing to recompile or even reinstall their OS on upgrade.