I didn't mean anything like that. Just the equivalent of a GPU with the ability to run arbitrary CPU oriented programs.

Of course GPUs do many tasks very well but there are also plenty of problems that aren't well suited to them. Well I suppose I've answered my own question at this point. There probably just aren't enough real world problems that aren't amenable to running on a GPU while also being either compute or memory bandwidth bound.

Still the near-monoculture does strike me as odd. I guess GPUs have bifurcated into enterprise versus consumer at this point but otherwise all we've got is a single CPU example from over a decade ago and a single alternative take on the concept from Fujitsu. Is it just due to the obscene cost of masks for modern process nodes?