The cycle hasn't really changed since 2007 and ATi Stream. Release some tool to program the GPU, expect someone else to do the rest, watch it fade into obscurit

The cycle hasn't really changed since 2007 and ATi Stream. Release some tool to program the GPU, expect someone else to do the rest, watch it fade into obscurity, rename it or release a new tool. Motivated users with simple tasks (hashing) would adapt to anything anyway, and so would industry grunts paid to deal with existing hardware and software. Still, each time they have announced the same magical “offloading of tasks to the GPU”, and the same magical “unified memory” to hold those tasks. Based on those sources, by now we are expected to have smart compilers that can take any Notepad and turn it into some CPU+GPU hybrid.