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Yes, in my opinion, the CPU model is dying as we fail to miniaturize we will be forced towards data parallel algorithms which benefit from speedups through SIMD.

Ultimately AVX will be the future of Intel if they want to compute with GPUs and if everyone stays silicon.

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My view is that data parallel is here to stay and what's likely to happen is we'll see more power pumped into the instructions. Things like "If lane A > lane B add C to lane D"

Eventually, I see us going basically full EPIC. That is "here's a batch of instructions that can happen in parallel, run it".

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