The x64 term never really sat well with me. I prefer the bsd method and call it amd64. i386 intel's 386 architecture ia64 intel's 64 bit architecture(aka t

The x64 term never really sat well with me. I prefer the bsd method and call it amd64. i386 intel's 386 architecture ia64 intel's 64 bit architecture(aka the itanium) amd64 amd's 64 bit architecture(aka the 64 bit extensions to i386 aka x86-64 aka x64)