# Variable-width Variable-packed SIMD / Simple-V / Parallelism Extension Proposal
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Key insight: Simple-V is intended as an abstraction layer to provide
a consistent "API" to parallelisation of existing *and future* operations.
*Actual* internal hardware-level parallelism is *not* required, such