I don't think it's exactly "luck", the trends are being driven by the technology, which they have done a good job of inventing. For better or worse, low-watt pa

I don't think it's exactly "luck", the trends are being driven by the technology, which they have done a good job of inventing. For better or worse, low-watt parallel compute is the primary area of innovation in compute hardware, so naturally the areas of innovation in software are more likely to leverage this innovative hardware. In other words, when all you have is a ton of tiny processors, every problem looks like a massively parallel process. It does raise the question of what we are missing because we don't have e.g. super-fast single-threaded processors or whatever new tech exists in an alternate universe.