Right. But the whole point of EPIC was to do away with that part of the die budget entirely, and a lot more besides.
GPGPU programming has worked because nobody proposed to run general code on it from the beginning. It just so happens that there are some workloads that fit the vector processing model.
GPGPU programming has worked because nobody proposed to run general code on it from the beginning. It just so happens that there are some workloads that fit the vector processing model.
But lots still don't. Lots and lots and lots.