Intel GPU Instruction Set Architecture Gets First Overhaul Since 2004 (wccftech.com)

Yet Intel's CPU instruction set architecture hasn't gotten an overhaul since 1985 or so. :) The advantages of not directly exposing the ISA to programmers...

And unlike, say, AMD, they also have a serious deep learning software effort. OpenVINO is pretty impressive performance-wise, in spite of its goofy name. I've done some back of the envelope, and at least on desktop chips it gets pretty darn close to the theoretical max GFLOPs on stuff that's not too terribly memory bound.