Why aren't there 128-bit CPUs?

Actually more like 30 years ago - R4000 - Wikipedia [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R4000 ] SPARC - Wikipedia [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC ] The driver for 64bit was that many progra…

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