Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs

dlundh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Was that a marketing thing? Because the SH-4 was only 32-bit AFAIK.

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  • magic_lobster_party@kbin.run ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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  • dlundh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes.

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• stembolts@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So cool.

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