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?
You could argue that SSE introduced 128bit back in 1999 for x86. It’s not 128bit as a base word size, but it is 128 bit computing.