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Both CPU and GPU are in large part limited by power delivery and heat. Putting them both in one chip tends to make both of them worse. I wouldn't count on that reversing any time soon.

It is however curious how CPU and GPU become more similar over time, with CPUs getting ever wider SIMD instructions and GPUs becoming better over time with branching code, integer performance, etc.



There is some convergence, but CPUs are still latency optimized and GPUs are throughput optimized which makes for vastly different architectures.


> Putting them both in one chip tends to make both of them worse.

You don’t need to do that for them to share a single memory address space. Putting them together would be useful if sharing caches between them made sense, but it doesn’t.




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