What defines "unusual"? The CPU/GPU split is a distinction without a difference there. NVIDIA and ATI have both been selling massively parallel architectures in their GPUs for most of a decade now, and NVIDIA has great traction in the supercomputing and machine learning space due to its HPC business development, excellent tooling and developer support. Intel is trying to do the same with Xeon Phi, and they're certainly throwing their weight behind it.
Both Intel and NVIDIA are addressing the memory bus bottleneck with chip packages that stack memory chips and shorten/widen the bus. The two are converging to similar designs and I foresee a big fight as they go head to head (remarkable, given NVIDIA's size, but not unprecedented, given how badly the ARM crowd has smoked Intel in mobile).
Both Intel and NVIDIA are addressing the memory bus bottleneck with chip packages that stack memory chips and shorten/widen the bus. The two are converging to similar designs and I foresee a big fight as they go head to head (remarkable, given NVIDIA's size, but not unprecedented, given how badly the ARM crowd has smoked Intel in mobile).