> Eventually, the CPU may cease to exist as its fundamental design becomes obsolete. This is usually called a GPGPU in modern server infrastructure. There’s no

> Eventually, the CPU may cease to exist as its fundamental design becomes obsolete. This is usually called a GPGPU in modern server infrastructure. There’s no reason yet to think CPU designs are becoming obsolete. SISD (Single Instruction, Single Data) is the CPU core model and it’s easier to program and does lots of things that you don’t want to use SIMD for. SISD is good for heterogenous workloads, and SIMD is good for homogeneous workloads. I thought GPGPU was waning these days. That term was used a lot during the period when people were ‘hacking’ GPUs to do general compute when the APIs like OpenGL didn’t offer general programmable computation. Today with CUDA, and compute shades in every major API, it’s a given that GPUs are for general purpose computation, and it’s even becoming an anachronism that the G in GPU stands for graphics. My soft prediction is that GPU might get a new name & acronym soon that doesn’t have “graphics” in it.