Marketing idea: CPU vendors should start using GPU vendors' practice of calling each SIMD lane as a "core"... Coming soon: Intel 16 unit, 256 core CPU.
Fun fact: Intel has a compiler project "ispc" that allows you to write CPU code in GPU SPMD sytle. The compiler automatically maps SPMD code to SIMD instructions. This programming model means auto-vectorization is not a hit or miss, it always works. https://github.com/ispc/ispc
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Fun fact: if you want to work at Intel, mastering python is a good shoe-in.
