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Re:Qualcomm Insider: Apple 64-Bit Chip `Hit Us in the Gut' by colanderman on Monday December 16, 2013 @06:36PM (#6918658)
Don't know why you were downvoted. Modern x86 chips not only have 128-bit vector registers, but also 256-bit ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions

(And while one could argue that a vector register isn't a "real" general-purpose register, the primary difference is that you can't perform fullwidth arithmetic, which is of very little use > 64 bits anyway.)

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