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# Variable-width Variable-packed SIMD / Simple-V / Parallelism Extension Proposal
-**Note: This document is out of date and involved early ideas and discussions. [Go to the up-to-date document](https://libre-soc.org/openpower/sv/)**
+**OBSOLETE. This document is out of date and involved early ideas and discussions. [Go to the up-to-date document](https://libre-soc.org/openpower/sv/)**
Key insight: Simple-V is intended as an abstraction layer to provide
a consistent "API" to parallelisation of existing *and future* operations.