computer architecture, 128-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 128 bits (16 octets) wide. Also, 128-bit central processing...

the foundation for the modern computing landscape. The 1976 Zilog Z80, one of the most popular 8-bit CPUs (though with 4-bit ALU, at least in the original)...

(2128) required to try all possible 128-bit keys is widely considered out of reach for conventional digital computing techniques for the foreseeable future...

In computing, bit numbering is the convention used to identify the bit positions in a binary number. In computing, the least significant bit (LSb) is...

In computing, quadruple precision (or quad precision) is a binary floating-point–based computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) with precision...

32-bit computing refers to computer systems with a processor, memory, and other major system components that operate on data in a maximum of 32-bit units...

such a processor is a 64-bit computer. From the software perspective, 64-bit computing means the use of machine code with 64-bit virtual memory addresses...

representable in eight or fewer bits and processor designers commonly optimize for this usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided...

A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is a 128-bit label used to uniquely identify objects in computer systems. The term Globally Unique Identifier (GUID)...

In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic on subsets of real numbers formed by a significand (a signed sequence of a fixed number of...

family, continues to refer to 16-bit halfwords, 32-bit words, and 64-bit doublewords, and additionally features 128-bit quadwords. In general, new processors...

4-bit computing is the use of computer architectures in which integers and other data units are 4 bits wide. 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic...

quantum computing, the qubit (or "quantum bit"), serves the same function as the bit in ordinary or "classical" computing. However, unlike a classical bit, which...

computer architecture, 16-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 16 bits (2 octets) wide. Also, 16-bit central processing unit...

Ampere Computing LLC is an American semiconductor company that designs ARM-based central processing units (CPUs) with high core counts for use in cloud...

telecommunications and computing, bit rate (bitrate or as a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. The bit rate is expressed...

Electronics Show; Creative Computing presents the Short Circuit Awards". Creative Computing. Vol. 9, no. 3. Ahl Computing. p. 50. ISSN 0097-8140. Archived...

architecture, 31-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 31 bits wide. In 1983, IBM introduced 31-bit addressing in the...

machine) 18 bits: chomp, chawmp (on a 36-bit machine) 32 bits: quadlet, tetra 64 bits: octlet, octa 96 bits: bentobox (in ITRON OS) 128 bits: hexlet, paragraph...

In computing, signed number representations are required to encode negative numbers in binary number systems. In mathematics, negative numbers in any...

Bit-level parallelism is a form of parallel computing based on increasing processor word size. Increasing the word size reduces the number of instructions...

of computing power in a brute-force attack, i.e., trying out each possible key in turn. A typical home computer in 2004 could brute-force a 40-bit key...

microprocessor (Toshiba)" (PDF). Semiconductor History Museum of Japan. Retrieved 27 June 2019. DIGITAL Computing Timeline: 12-bit architecture v t e...

16-bit (Highcolor) pixel format when performing 3D acceleration and a 16-bit Z-buffer. The 2D accelerator engine within the RIVA 128 is 128 bits wide...

Intel and the whole x86 ecosystem needed 64-bit memory addressing if x86 was to survive the 64-bit computing era, as workstation and desktop software applications...

complement of −128 in an eight-bit system is −128 , as shown in the table to the right. Although the expected result from negating −128 is +128 , there is...

1-bit systems. Opcodes for at least one 1-bit processor architecture were 4-bit and the address bus was 8-bit. While 1-bit computing is obsolete, 1-bit...

VZEROUPPER and VZEROALL. The AVX instructions support both 128-bit and 256-bit SIMD. The 128-bit versions can be useful to improve old code without needing...

are still available, they are generally superseded by a set of sixteen 128-bit vector registers (XMM registers). Each of these vector registers can store...

unchanged and provide 128 more characters. Many manufacturers devised 8-bit character sets consisting of ASCII plus up to 128 of the unused codes. Thus...