Yeah, I remember hearing that at the time too. When MS chose to support AMD64, they made it clear it was the only 64bit x86 ISA they were going to support, even

Yeah, I remember hearing that at the time too. When MS chose to support AMD64, they made it clear it was the only 64bit x86 ISA they were going to support, even though it was an open secret Intel was sitting on one but not wanting to announce it.