I think he had a strategy - utilizing the massively parallel computation of GPUs for more general purpose compute as Moore's law tailed off - and he noticed tha

I think he had a strategy - utilizing the massively parallel computation of GPUs for more general purpose compute as Moore's law tailed off - and he noticed that Intel couldn't see the lights of this in the rear view mirror. Everybody's known that Moore's law was on its way out, for speed increases at least, since the mid 2000s - the seminal article was by Herb Sutter [1]. So hardware needed to get more parallel. But multicore is a distinctly different paradigm to CUDA, which is closer to SIMD but on a completely different order of magnitude. So Intel was never going to get to where the puck was skating. [1] http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm