This is why I like the SIMT model used in CUDA and OpenCL. Just give me a unified programming model for both SIMD vectors and multicore. Let me program each ALU

This is why I like the SIMT model used in CUDA and OpenCL. Just give me a unified programming model for both SIMD vectors and multicore. Let me program each ALU as a separate thread. This requires CPU makers to wake up and give us branching intrinsics that work like in GPGPU: Just let the branched out ALUs sleep / do no-ops. As far as I understand Intel has done that with AVX-512 for KNL. This should be advertised much more. IMO one of the biggest mistakes with KNC was to only push OpenMP and neglect OpenCL. The promise of getting good performance by just recompiling OpenMP multicore code to KNC was snake oil - you have to rewrite all the vectorization in order to even get close to GPUs of the same generation, let alone GPUs released in subsequent years when Intel's production pipeline was stalled.