The list of examples is beside my point, and the point of the original article. The original article seems to be talking about SIMD as a general-purpose comput

The list of examples is beside my point, and the point of the original article. The original article seems to be talking about SIMD as a general-purpose computer, with general-purpose applications, not as a secondary unit to another system. My comment acknowledged the uses you list above, especially for GPUs, in which SIMD is a secondary processor to a controlling general-purpose computer. I programmed Conway's Life on a 32x32 DAP in 1986, and I guess I feel like I've seen these claims once already.