[xyzzy2020]

100% agreed. We might have been on the same team. Don't forget Omnipath and Xeon Phi. Prediction: this new discrete graphics card as well.

[porker]

I sat through a Xeon Phi presentation at university, about how it would revolutionize the university's "supercomputer". I left shortly after; did Phi come to nothing?

[pinewurst]

It was too difficult to get decent performance from Xeon Phi for general use cases. A few apps could make it work e.g. PGS bought up all the old stock for a big geophysics system.

[shaklee3]

Omnipath went the way infiniband is going. Ethernet has caught up, and surpassed the speeds, so using proprietary technology with fewer features isn't that attractive anymore.

[sitkack]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabit_Ethernet is faster than the main memory bandwidth on current generation processors.