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You know this includes all recent Intels right? AMD64 here means "the 64 bit extension to x86 that's not the Itanium one"

• wildranter 14y ago
  No I didn't. The naming conventions for this instruction set are a bit of a mess [0], with every company trying to stick their brand in the middle of it. No wonder people get confused on this. Thanks for pointing that out. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
  • X-Istence 14y ago
    AMD was the first to market with AMD64 ... no surprise that they got to slap their brand on it.
    • jeltz 14y ago
      Just like Intel named their competing 64 bit architecture Intel Itanium. The AMD64 architecture won and Intel decided to license it.
      • potkor 14y ago
        In practice Itanium only competed with the existing 64-bit architectures from the Unix vendors. Many of whom got suckered into dropping their own stuff and moving onto Itanium, and got wiped out because of the very late & underperforming Itanium chips (frequently called "Itanic")...