• ms.lane@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        We are.

        Addressing-wise, no we don’t have consumer level 128bit CPUs and probably won’t ever need them.

        Instructions though, SSE had some 128bit ops (OR/XOR, MOVE) and AVX is 128bit vector math. AVX2 is 256bit vector math, AVX512 is- you guessed it 512bit vector math. AltiVec on PPC had 128bit vectors 20 years ago.