Inventing a new Scalar ISA from scratch is over a decade-long task
including simulators and compilers: OpenRISC 1200 took 12 years to
-mature. A Vector or Packed SIMD ISA to reach stable general-purpose
+mature. A Vector or Packed SIMD ISA to reach stable *general-purpose*
auto-vectorisation compiler support has never been achieved in the
history of computing, not with the combined resources of ARM, Intel,
AMD, MIPS, Sun Microsystems, SGI, Cray, and many more. Rather: GPUs
-have ultra-specialist compilers that are designed from the ground up
-to support Vector/SIMD parallelism, and associated standards managed by
+have ultra-specialist compilers (CUDA) that are designed from the ground up
+to support Vector/SIMD parallelism, and associated standards
+(SPIR-V, Vulkan, OpenCL) managed by
the Khronos Group, with multi-man-century development committment from
multiple billion-dollar-revenue companies, to sustain them.