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Re:AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s ... by enragedcacti on Thursday April 08, 2021 @09:18AM (#26738323)
> 256 bit

but, why? do we need more than 16 exabytes of memory?

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Re:AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s ... by colejohnson66 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:30PM (#26741512)
Right. Does anyone even need a megabyte? As Bill Gates famously (didn’t) say, “640k ought to be enough for anybody”.

Joking aside, we very well may one day have more memory available that 64 address lines can handle. RISC-V’s spec does have a stub chapter for “RV128”

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