Athlon64, released in 2003, was quite popular. In the middle of the 2004 most of the AMD desktop processors (athlon, sempron) were 64-bit. So it wasn't "quite a

Athlon64, released in 2003, was quite popular. In the middle of the 2004 most of the AMD desktop processors (athlon, sempron) were 64-bit. So it wasn't "quite a few years" exactly. Only netbooks brought 32bit back to life somehow.