If Intel were given a container ship full of a gold and a mandate to redo the basic underpinnings of computation, and given a ten year alternative timeline, I'd

If Intel were given a container ship full of a gold and a mandate to redo the basic underpinnings of computation, and given a ten year alternative timeline, I'd wager they'd be about 30% faster than an equivalent Intel that maintained the status quo. Honestly I think we're more held up by programming languages that make concurrent programming hard than by the underlying architecture. It's not that hard to compile an existing C++ or Java codebase to a new ISA. It's hard to rewrite it in a language that scales well to thousands of threads. And that language doesn't even exist. The closest we have is whatever Nvidia is calling C++ on CUDA and that sucks.