The article is correct in saying that we have more choices open to us now than a few year ago. This is partly because of GPUs, and partly because of technologic

The article is correct in saying that we have more choices open to us now than a few year ago. This is partly because of GPUs, and partly because of technological considerations. However, the article seems to suggest that there is a dichotomy between modern CPUs and throughput-oriented architectures. This is not true. For instance, the Sun Niagra eschews out-of-order execution and branch speculation to gain throughput by executing 8 threads concurrently. This type of microarchitecture is still more flexible than your contemporary GPU, but gives you considerably higher throughput for I/O dominated applications. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that although future architectures will be hybrids of low-latency and high-throughput designs, the high-throughput parts will resemble CPUs more than current GPUs.