x86 came out 1978,
21 years after, x64 came out 1999
we are three years overdue for a shift, and I don’t mean to arm. Is there just no point to it? 128 bit computing is a thing and has been in the talks since 1976 according to Wikipedia. Why hasn’t it been widely adopted by now?
I think what you need to know, in layman terms, is that 128bit is not the double of 64bit. 65bit is double the amount of 64bit.
128bit is an absurd huge amount. And 64 is so much that even I as a radar engineer do not have to worry about it for a second.