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Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 9 points 4 months ago

There's plenty of instructions for processing integers and fp numbers from 8 bits to 512 bits with a single instruction and register. There's been a lot of work in packed math instructions for neural network inference.