A processing device to avoid lane conflicts due to writing of multiple values to the same memory location during a SIMD scatter operation comprising: a register configured to store a vector of memory locations, named first vector; a memory device; and a processor core coupled to the register and to the memory device, wherein the processor core is configured to: receive the first vector comprising a plurality of elements, the plurality of elements comprising: a first element located at a first lane position in the first vector, wherein the value of the first element represents a first memory location in the memory device; and a second element located at a second lane position in the first vector, wherein: the value of the second element represents a second memory location in the memory device, and the first lane position and the second lane position of the first vector are in sequential order according to the SIMD scatter operation; the processor core further is characterized to: execute a VPCONFLICT operation to generate a vector of bit strings, named second vector, wherein each bit in the second vector is set when the corresponding comparison associated with a current element of the first vector shows the lane conflict with a memory location associated with a previous element of the first vector; execute a VPCONFLICTMSK operation to generate a bitmask, wherein the bitmask includes a bit vector that indicates which elements of the first vector have conflicting memory locations; and execute the single SIMD scatter operation using the bitmask to identify values that are a last occurrence of the lane conflict or that are the values for the lanes with no conflict, comprising selectively writing elements of the first vector to memory, in accordance with the bitmask. a register configured to store a vector of memory locations, named first vector; a memory device; and a processor core coupled to the register and to the memory device, wherein the processor core is configured to: receive the first vector comprising a plurality of elements, the plurality of elements comprising: a first element located at a first lane position in the first vector, wherein the value of the first element represents a first memory location in the memory device; and a second element located at a second lane position in the first vector, wherein: the value of the second element represents a second memory location in the memory device, and the first lane position and the second lane position of the first vector are in sequential order according to the SIMD scatter operation; a first element located at a first lane position in the first vector, wherein the value of the first element represents a first memory location in the memory device; and a second element located at a second lane position in the first vector, wherein: the value of the second element represents a second memory location in the memory device, and the first lane position and the second lane position of the first vector are in sequential order according to the SIMD scatter operation; the value of the second element represents a second memory location in the memory device, and the first lane position and the second lane position of the first vector are in sequential order according to the SIMD scatter operation; the processor core further is execute a VPCONFLICT operation to generate a vector of bit strings, named second vector, wherein each bit in the second vector is set when the corresponding comparison associated with a current element of the first vector shows the lane conflict with a memory location associated with a previous element of the first vector; execute a VPCONFLICTMSK operation to generate a bitmask, wherein the bitmask includes a bit vector that indicates which elements of the first vector have conflicting memory locations; and execute the single SIMD scatter operation using the bitmask to identify values that are a last occurrence of the lane conflict or that are the values for the lanes with no conflict, comprising selectively writing elements of the first vector to memory, in accordance with the bitmask.