Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoI’m surprised some marketing genius at the intel/amd hasnt started using the bigger numbers
Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoI’m surprised some marketing genius at the intel/amd hasnt started using the bigger numbers
wewbull@feddit.uk 6 months ago
I expect the engineers are telling the marketing people “No! You can’t do that. You’ll scare everyone that it’s incompatible.”
Vilian@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
32bits is compatible with 64bits, why wouldn’t 128 bits be too?
Peffse@lemmy.world 6 months ago
64bit cut out 16bit compatibility. So I’m guessing the fear is that 128 would cut 32.