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AMD was the first to market with AMD64 ... no surprise that they got to slap their brand on it.
by 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 agoJust like Intel named their competing 64 bit architecture Intel Itanium. The AMD64 architecture won and Intel decided to license it.
- potkor 14y agoIn 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")...