Towards a big change of architecture by NVidia ?

In a official statement NVidia indicated that William J. Dally, president of the computer department of Stanford is going to join the company in the place of David Kirk who held this position up to to now and since many years had directed the design of the chips of the company.
The news could have passed unperceived if the CV of William J. Dally was not also atypical for this position. He has no particular expertise in the world of the video cards, but has on the other hand a large reputation in the world of parallel processing and the microprocessors.
Since it will decide the future of the GPU, NVidia is thus likely to radically change direction and to approach what Intel has started a few years back, Larrabbee.
And it is certainly to better improve the gains brought by Cuda and the GPGPU that Dally was put in this position.
In the long term the graphics chips will be used more and more to replace the central processors to make parallel calculations, which is their strong point thanks to their multitude of calculating units. The goal will be certainly to enable them to treat increasingly complex instructions while keeping their force, parallelism.
We will then move forward to a new major change of data processing, by returning to what one called in the past, coprocessors.