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Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised some marketing genius at the intel/amd hasnt started using the bigger numbers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I expect the engineers are telling the marketing people "No! You can't do that. You'll scare everyone that it's incompatible."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

32bits is compatible with 64bits, why wouldn't 128 bits be too?

[–] Peffse 1 points 6 months ago

64bit cut out 16bit compatibility. So I'm guessing the fear is that 128 would cut 32.