response to the announcement, AMD announced an x86 compatible 64-bit architecture called x86-64 or AMD64 on a K8 or later chip line. Process manufacturer VIA jumped on board and sales took off as existing 32-bit code would still run on these new chips. Microsoft announced Windows XP support Windows XP Pro 64 would be released for this platform but not for Itanium. After a year of brisk sales by AMD in both server and desktop processors, Intel finally caved and announced an EM64T in March 2004 with the first shipping in June of that year. Since AMD developed the instruction set, it's frequently called AMD64. That makes sense. Yeah, so now we know the history of why things are called AMD64. So it's 64-bit and bottom line is if you're looking for a distribution of Linux and you see 32-bit and you see AMD64 and your machine is labeled as a 64-bit processor, use the AMD64 even though your processor is Intel and not AMD because it's just a label. Yes. There we go. All right. Well, I'm glad (6/45)
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