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Technology@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs

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Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs

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Technology@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

We went from 8-bit, to 16-bit, to 32-bit, and ended things at 64-bit. Here's why 128-bit CPUs don't exist.

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Only thing I can find is that it has 128-bit graphics-oriented floating-point unit delivering 1.4 GFLOPS.

Probably only for marketing reasons. Everyone was desperate not to be worse than N64.

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