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An example of MIMD system is [[Xeon Phi|Intel Xeon Phi]], descended from [[Larrabee (microarchitecture)|Larrabee]] microarchitecture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://perilsofparallel.blogspot.gr/2008/09/larrabee-vs-nvidia-mimd-vs-simd.html|title = The Perils of Parallel: Larrabee vs. Nvidia, MIMD vs. SIMD|date = 19 September 2008}}</ref> These processors have multiple processing cores (up to 61 as of 2015) that can execute different instructions on different data.
 
Most parallel computers, as of 2013, are MIMD systems.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/mimd |title=ArchivedMIMD copy&#124; Intel® Developer Zone |access-date=2013-10-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016215430/http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/mimd |archive-date=2013-10-16 }}</ref>
 
==Shared memory model==