See libjpeg-turbo, ffmpeg, crypto, hashing in general, ripgrep, simdjson, ...
https://woboq.com/blog/utf-8-processing-using-simd.html
See also: 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