Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

wouldn't NVidia have at least as much IP in this arena as Intel

Nvidia has deep knowledge about making graphics processors.

Graphics is the most ideal workload for sea of simple processor
type chips you could imagine - nearly infinitely sub-divisible
homogenous workload with next to no inter-thread communication
or serialization overhead.

General purpose computing workloads that PCs and servers run
are far lumpier, less divisible, and often highly asymmetric with
serial bottlenecks. Threads and processors often share data
intensely and with fine granularity. Nvidia's institutional know
how building GPUs is next to useless for designing uncores
for large scale CMP chips for general purpose computing.