Linux used to refer to the arch as amd64 and then Intel copied it a few years later. AMD licensed the EV6 bus from DEC and there was some discussion of having

Linux used to refer to the arch as amd64 and then Intel copied it a few years later. AMD licensed the EV6 bus from DEC and there was some discussion of having motherboards that could accept either an AMD K7 or DEC Alpha and just flash the BIOS. That might have made the Alpha last longer by having more low cost motherboards