Back in the days of the Itanium debacle, Intel made the mistake of assuming everybody would be willing to rewrite their code to work efficiently on whatever har

Back in the days of the Itanium debacle, Intel made the mistake of assuming everybody would be willing to rewrite their code to work efficiently on whatever hardware Intel wanted to give them. Instead, AMD won (briefly) by making a 64-bit chip that was much more x86-compatible. Now, though, it sounds as if Intel may be making the opposite mistake. The Larrabee/KnightsThingummy family was built around x86 cores to make it easier to port existing code to it, but now it looks like this time people really are willing to rewrite their code to work on GPGPUs after all.