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[chipguy]

GPGPU has done really well in the server market

For some definition of really well, sure I guess.

GPGPU* is useful for a minority of HPC work and HPC is a minority
of the server market.

Don't be so quick to dismiss the viability of alternative architectures or even computing styles in a world

I never dismiss the ongoing reality of the same expensive mistakes and
pendulum over-swinging happening over and over again in computing.

Each generation comes up with a "new" old idea under a new name
and they get burnt well short of the hype for the same *old* reasons.

As regular as the sun comes up. I have been watching the computer
industry since the mid 70s. What a show.

*BTW, you call it GPGPU. More than 30 years ago the same idea was
called attached array processors. Heck, IBM even had an option (IBM
speak: /VF - vector facility) for their mainframes. Pffft, kids these days.

where mega data center operators are willing to invest in reworking their software to get higher perf/lower TCO.

Seen that sorry story before in the 70s. The mega guys that went that
way got burned big time as general purpose computing marched on
and special purpose/microcoded optimized stuff get EOL'd, LOL.