The article discusses the current trend but you hint at the possibility of a trend reversal. The CPUs are more and more multicore with wider SIMD. Many now hav

The article discusses the current trend but you hint at the possibility of a trend reversal. The CPUs are more and more multicore with wider SIMD. Many now have dynamic clock rates or low clock rates. The GPUs which use to actually have fixed functions now more and more are just GPGPUs. This to me is a convergence.