I remember having this argument 10+ years ago. Discrete GPUs like what gamers were buying were thought to be a small market with no real routes to bigger market

I remember having this argument 10+ years ago. Discrete GPUs like what gamers were buying were thought to be a small market with no real routes to bigger markets. Workstation and HPC could be addressed with entirely separate product lines, hence the disaster that was larrabee. It was Nvidia that pushed the unified workstation/consumer architecture. ATI reused core architecture, but they had very different software stacks above with their firestream stuff.