“All future interesting problems will be throughput problems. GPUs will evolve to become the de facto general-purpose processor. The CPU as we know it will shrink, dry up, and blow away.”
nVIDIA presentation - okay I paraphrased the last sentence because I didn’t have time to get it down verbatim but it certainly captures the spirit … nVIDIA has thrown down the gauntlet and sees themselves the heir apparent to the central processing throne. Computing should get even more interesting in the next decade.