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?
Because 2 to the power of 64 is a stupidly big number.
It is many times less than 2 to the power of 32 because you’ve went ahead and doubled it 32 times to get to 64bits.