>"Lets consider upending our infrastructure and putting millions of pounds worth or existing and battle proven code and hardware up in flux so we can fuck around seeing if Intel has actually made a viable GPU-like product on their umpteenth attempt"

That's exactly how innovation is made, and missing out on this in crucial moments is how previously big players become irrelevant in the blink of an eye. See: Kodak, Blockbuster, Sears, Nokia.

It's valid to be skeptical of new developments (because a lot of them will be dead ends), but overdo it and you're setting yourself up for disaster.