It seems to me there's some uncharted territory between "massively parallel" (GPU) and "unpredictable branching" (CPU), and the corpse of Itanium is laying ther

It seems to me there's some uncharted territory between "massively parallel" (GPU) and "unpredictable branching" (CPU), and the corpse of Itanium is laying there as a warning to anyone who would go exploring in that area. Maybe it's just a desert, but I doubt it.