NSA force CPU makers to limit CPU'S?

It just seems to me that multi-core processors are a waste, when that space could be better used by a single bigger processor core.

Anyone that's ever designed a circuit realizes that redundancy is redundant.  4 processors !/= 4x the power.  Fractional improvements are fractional of what normal should be.

>>32
Your 128 bit CPU can calculate floating point numbers with higher precision than my 32 bit CPU, but you still cannot calculate 1+1 any faster than my 32 bit CPU.  What matters now is speed, not precision.  Unless you can somehow cram 2 64 bit instructions into a single 128 bit instruction and execute it in one go, your 128 bit CPU is not noticeably faster.  Even if you do that, you'd have to drastically change computer architecture.

>>33
Who the hell is Michio Kaku?  I think I've heard the name before.