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Apples A-series processors stackable?

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Huxely

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Hi, I'm posting here because I have little technical computing know how...I think there are some good reasons for Apple's devices to assist each others processing and wireless abilities; for example tethering your iPhone to a MacBook air when extra power is needed. Maybe also the wireless can be combined and sped up (beam forming??). What technical hurdles are there? Is this sort of 'stacking' fundamentally unfeasible for a computing reason? I'm aware that ARM and x86 are pretty fundamentally different. Significance of move to 64bit? Thanks for advance for any assistace!
 
I'm going to move this to "All Things Apple" and see if you get more response.
 
A serious hurdle would likely be how slow USB is as interlink between CPUs. I also don't see why you'd combine the wifi modems; the antenna on a macbook pro is as big as an iphone in terms of surface area, basically.

The more interesting idea to me remains when your entire laptop is just a shell with a battery, screen, keyboard...and the logic board is what is in your phone. I think either Motorola or ASUS made one of these a few years ago with an Android phone, but they were ahead of their time. I believed in this idea before they did it, and I still believe in it...but I don't see it being something seriously possible for another 8-10 years.
 
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