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

Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Okay, so why can’t we just not use exponentially growing values? Like 96 bit (64 + 36). I’d the something intrinsic about the size increases that they HAVE to be exponential? Why not linear scaling? 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, etc.

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