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Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs
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this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2024
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And we have wide instructions that can process this data, such as for multimedia applications.
Addressing and memory size has been the historic motivator for wider registers, but it’s probably not going to be in my lifetime that I see the need for 128.