The real problem is that there are only 2 significant players in this sector: AMD and Nvidia. Real estate of modern GPU chip has become astonishingly large and

The real problem is that there are only 2 significant players in this sector: AMD and Nvidia. Real estate of modern GPU chip has become astonishingly large and expensive. It will make absolutely no economical reason to have GPU separately from CPU. The future looks like desktop CPU and GPU will be placed on one die as it is done in every modern mobile System on Chip. In the near future AMD has a better chance on desktop because of x86 cores used by desktop gamers, but Intel may start to compete here more seriously. Nvidia might be more successful on mobile/robotics/automotive markets with their ARM+GPU System on Chips, but Nvidia will start loosing desktop gaming. Now data centers and AI. It is clear that CPU+GPU SoC is not a solution here because right now one modern compute node has 2 multi-core Xeons and 8 Voltas. Even if AMD will make very powerful SoC like EPIC+Vega right now, it cannot be sufficient for many compute-bound problems. This looks like Nvidia will still dominate in this sector for a while. But tendency will be to have 2-4 socket mainboard of powerful SoCs because it's more efficient in terms of money and energy.