Intel actually failed at least twice at this. More recently with Larabee and the Xeon Phi saga that got us AVX-512, and maybe Intel Xe saves it. But in the lat

Intel actually failed at least twice at this. More recently with Larabee and the Xeon Phi saga that got us AVX-512, and maybe Intel Xe saves it. But in the late 80s and early 90s they actually had the i860 and its variants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860 which contained a graphics processor! That wasn't a particular success but it landed us the MMX ISA on x86. Surprisingly enough, Intel went then to make similar mistakes with Itanium, and then with Larabee. But both things landed us features on x86.