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> Isn't this adding new cores directly onto the main chip? That doesn't sound like it fits to me. These are coprocessors, which are a very different thing from

> Isn't this adding new cores directly onto the main chip? That doesn't sound like it fits to me. These are coprocessors, which are a very different thing from just another CPU core. For one, they use a different architecture (instruction set, registers/memory, etc.). The "wheel of reincarnation" refers to features/capabilities on coprocessors eventually being folded into the main CPU. While CPUs have adopted insights from GPU implementations, GPU functionality has never been fully folded into CPUs (software rasterizers don't count).

Dylan16807 4y ago
> These are coprocessors, which are a very different thing from just another CPU core. Well that's why I didn't say "just another CPU core". But fine, I don't want to argue semantics. > The "wheel of reincarnation" refers to features/capabilities on coprocessors eventually being folded into the main CPU. Then that's definitely not happening here, and hasn't happened to x86/arm since they gained floating point, right?