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Old 01-04-2021, 06:09 PM   #1
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AMD vs Intel 64 bit name sheme


I'm curious to know why do 64bit distros and package names have an AMD name on it? Even though there are computer with intel 64 bit cpus.
 
Old 01-04-2021, 06:54 PM   #2
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Because AMD produced a 64 bit CPU before Intel did.
The two chips are compatible.

This information is available in Wikipedia.
 
Old 01-05-2021, 01:55 AM   #3
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Timing was not the reason. Intel's competing Itanium 64-bit architecture was not accepted by the market for various reasons but mainly because it was too radical, had serious performance issues with legacy 32-bit applications and also too expensive. In the end Intel accepted defeat and licensed successful AMD architecture - hence the amd64 name.
 
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