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 **Summary**
 
+There are historical and current efforts that step away from both a
+general-purpose architecture and from the practice of using compiler
+intrinsics in general-purpose compute to make programmer's lives easier.
+A classic example being the Cell Processor (Sony PS3) which required 
+programmers to use DMA to schedule processing tasks. These specialist
+high-performance architectures are only tolerated for
+as long as they are useful.
+
+Combining SVP64 with ZOLC and OpenCAPI can produce an extremely powerful
+architectural base that fits well with intrinsics embedded into standard
+general-purpose compilers (gcc, llvm) as a pragmatic compromise which makes
+it useful right out the gate. Further R&D may target compiler technology
+that brings it on-par with NVIDIA, Graphcore, AMDGPU, but with intrinsics
+there is no critical product launch dependence on having such
+advanced compilers.
+
 Bottom line is that there is a clear roadmap towards solving a long
 standing problem facing Computer Science and doing so in a way that
 reduces power consumption reduces algorithm completion time and reduces