There are many applications that still need the general purpose of CPUs while being vectorized See libjpeg-turbo, ffmpeg, crypto, hashing in general, ripgrep,

There are many applications that still need the general purpose of CPUs while being vectorized See libjpeg-turbo, ffmpeg, crypto, hashing in general, ripgrep, simdjson, ... https://woboq.com/blog/utf-8-processing-using-simd.html https://woboq.com/blog/utf-8-processing-using-simd.html See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/4cq0ls/when_is_simd_better_than_the_gpu https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/4cq0ls/when_is_sim... If simd was obsoleted by GPUs intel & amd wouldn't keep introducing wider simd extensions