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You are missing that yes, CPU designs are hobbled by the software industry shortcomings.

Also, you are overlooking that on the traditional architectures memory access becomes slower the more cores you add.

Better integrated GPU and better power consumption on PCs will win on almost all scores until the integrated GPU becomes good enough, and power consumption gets near the theoretical minimum. Then we'll probably see alternative architectures (more alternative than a GPU).



Clearly we should boot the operating system straight onto the GPU.

(Joking, but also a great project if you have an army of graduate students to keep busy)


The PowerVR guys appear to be running a full RTOS w/ memory protection on their GPU FWIW.




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