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Technology@lemmy.world · 2 years 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 · 2 years 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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2 years ago
Being pedantic, but…

The amd64 ISA doesn’t have native 256-bit integer operations, let alone 512-bit. Those numbers you mention are for SIMD instructions, which is just 8x 32-bit integer operations running at the same time.

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