diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index fc2f8bbc8a350..5b7fd48129929 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -50,3 +50,6 @@
 [submodule "src/llvm-emscripten"]
 	path = src/llvm-emscripten
 	url = https://github.com/rust-lang/llvm
+[submodule "src/stdsimd"]
+	path = src/stdsimd
+	url = https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/stdsimd
diff --git a/src/libcore/lib.rs b/src/libcore/lib.rs
index 3dd30ee1c69e2..1efd605112dc2 100644
--- a/src/libcore/lib.rs
+++ b/src/libcore/lib.rs
@@ -68,16 +68,21 @@
 #![feature(allow_internal_unstable)]
 #![feature(asm)]
 #![feature(associated_type_defaults)]
+#![feature(attr_literals)]
 #![feature(cfg_target_feature)]
 #![feature(cfg_target_has_atomic)]
 #![feature(concat_idents)]
 #![feature(const_fn)]
 #![feature(custom_attribute)]
+#![feature(doc_spotlight)]
 #![feature(fundamental)]
 #![feature(i128_type)]
 #![feature(inclusive_range_syntax)]
 #![feature(intrinsics)]
+#![feature(iterator_flatten)]
+#![feature(iterator_repeat_with)]
 #![feature(lang_items)]
+#![feature(link_llvm_intrinsics)]
 #![feature(never_type)]
 #![feature(no_core)]
 #![feature(on_unimplemented)]
@@ -85,15 +90,17 @@
 #![feature(prelude_import)]
 #![feature(repr_simd, platform_intrinsics)]
 #![feature(rustc_attrs)]
+#![feature(rustc_const_unstable)]
+#![feature(simd_ffi)]
 #![feature(specialization)]
 #![feature(staged_api)]
+#![feature(stmt_expr_attributes)]
+#![feature(target_feature)]
 #![feature(unboxed_closures)]
 #![feature(untagged_unions)]
 #![feature(unwind_attributes)]
-#![feature(doc_spotlight)]
-#![feature(rustc_const_unstable)]
-#![feature(iterator_repeat_with)]
-#![feature(iterator_flatten)]
+
+#![cfg_attr(stage0, allow(unused_attributes))]
 
 #[prelude_import]
 #[allow(unused)]
@@ -179,3 +186,21 @@ mod char_private;
 mod iter_private;
 mod tuple;
 mod unit;
+
+// Pull in the the `coresimd` crate directly into libcore. This is where all the
+// architecture-specific (and vendor-specific) intrinsics are defined. AKA
+// things like SIMD and such. Note that the actual source for all this lies in a
+// different repository, rust-lang-nursery/stdsimd. That's why the setup here is
+// a bit wonky.
+#[path = "../stdsimd/coresimd/mod.rs"]
+#[allow(missing_docs, missing_debug_implementations, dead_code)]
+#[unstable(feature = "stdsimd", issue = "48556")]
+#[cfg(not(stage0))] // allow changes to how stdsimd works in stage0
+mod coresimd;
+
+#[unstable(feature = "stdsimd", issue = "48556")]
+#[cfg(not(stage0))]
+pub use coresimd::simd;
+#[unstable(feature = "stdsimd", issue = "48556")]
+#[cfg(not(stage0))]
+pub use coresimd::arch;
diff --git a/src/libstd/lib.rs b/src/libstd/lib.rs
index d7d856fe3ad06..a7e1c0ce732e0 100644
--- a/src/libstd/lib.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/lib.rs
@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@
 #![feature(rand)]
 #![feature(raw)]
 #![feature(rustc_attrs)]
+#![feature(stdsimd)]
 #![feature(sip_hash_13)]
 #![feature(slice_bytes)]
 #![feature(slice_concat_ext)]
@@ -501,6 +502,35 @@ mod memchr;
 // compiler
 pub mod rt;
 
+// Pull in the the `stdsimd` crate directly into libstd. This is the same as
+// libcore's arch/simd modules where the source of truth here is in a different
+// repository, but we pull things in here manually to get it into libstd.
+//
+// Note that the #[cfg] here is intended to do two things. First it allows us to
+// change the rustc implementation of intrinsics in stage0 by not compiling simd
+// intrinsics in stage0. Next it doesn't compile anything in test mode as
+// stdsimd has tons of its own tests which we don't want to run.
+#[path = "../stdsimd/stdsimd/mod.rs"]
+#[allow(missing_debug_implementations, missing_docs, dead_code)]
+#[unstable(feature = "stdsimd", issue = "48556")]
+#[cfg(all(not(stage0), not(test)))]
+mod stdsimd;
+
+// A "fake" module needed by the `stdsimd` module to compile, not actually
+// exported though.
+#[cfg(not(stage0))]
+mod coresimd {
+    pub use core::arch;
+    pub use core::simd;
+}
+
+#[unstable(feature = "stdsimd", issue = "48556")]
+#[cfg(all(not(stage0), not(test)))]
+pub use stdsimd::simd;
+#[unstable(feature = "stdsimd", issue = "48556")]
+#[cfg(all(not(stage0), not(test)))]
+pub use stdsimd::arch;
+
 // Include a number of private modules that exist solely to provide
 // the rustdoc documentation for primitive types. Using `include!`
 // because rustdoc only looks for these modules at the crate level.
diff --git a/src/stdsimd b/src/stdsimd
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000000..678cbd325c840
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/stdsimd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 678cbd325c84070c9dbe4303969fbd2734c0b4ee
diff --git a/src/tools/tidy/src/lib.rs b/src/tools/tidy/src/lib.rs
index 4d89008d5ca54..1def3048ce071 100644
--- a/src/tools/tidy/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/tools/tidy/src/lib.rs
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ fn filter_dirs(path: &Path) -> bool {
         "src/librustc/mir/interpret",
         "src/librustc_mir/interpret",
         "src/target",
+        "src/stdsimd",
     ];
     skip.iter().any(|p| path.ends_with(p))
 }