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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Why not go big and make it a Switch 128?
I understand that there's a diminishing return and that a 128-bit processor core doesn't really add much in the way of performance over 64-bit, but it would be like having a V8 under the hood with an obscene amount of horsepower that you never use, no? People drive those anyway.
Or be the true innovators again and release a ternary gaming system 🤯 They could call it the Nintendo~3~ (pronounced "Nintendo Base Three"), the Nintendo Trit, or the Nintendo ThreeWay
128-bit addressing would add memory and processing overhead that would make it not worth it. 64-bit addressing is already more memory than will ever be in a Nintendo console (16 exabytes, or 16 million TBi).
The Nintendo Swirch 2 also has a 128-bit memory bus, which means it can move up to 128 bits of memory at once. This does make memory operations faster, effective increasing the bandwidth of memory operations.
The PS5 has a memory bus width of 256 bits. The Xbox Series S has 128 bits, and the Series X has 320 bit memory bus width. So, wide buses aren’t uncommon on modern architectures.
That's just the memory bus though, not the processor core architecture. A 128-bit memory bus can run two 64-bit processor cores simultaneously, but that's still using a 64-bit instruction set, no?