why is x64 often called AMD64?
why not INTEL64?
does intel suck?
AMD64
Jonathan Hughes
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Jaxson Jackson
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Colton Morgan
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en.wikipedia.org
Here's your Intel 64.
Anthony Diaz
Cuz amd invented the 64 bit architecture
Camden Myers
It's literally in the first paragraph of x86-64 wiki page.
>The original specification, created by AMD and released in 2000, has been implemented by AMD, Intel and VIA. The AMD K8 processor was the first to implement it. This was the first significant addition to the x86 architecture designed by a company other than Intel.
Brayden Campbell
AMD64 is the AMD-developed 64-bit extension to x86, these days commonly called x86-64 to be vendor-neutral, while Intel used to call their copy EMT-64. x64 is what Microsoft (and ONLY Microsoft) calls it because they can't even the the arch name right.
IA-64 is Itanium, which is a trainwreck.
Henry Rivera
intel can't do 64 bits
Jeremiah Cruz
intel established the 32bit X86 ISA. AMD came along and created an extension to this ISA, called AMD64.
In modern computing X86 is literally worthless without the AMD64 extension.
If you look at the binaries for programs, it was common, and still is somewhat, for there to be a distinction between inteldildowhatever86 and AMD64.
Its a neat little bullet point of modern computing history, but ultimately its defined by AMD.
Jose Ramirez
Wait what, AMD did something original?
Jaxon Bennett
as always does
Robert Parker
AMD invented the architecture.
At the time, Intel was busy shilling their new 64 bit architecture Itanium, not realizing that the x86 architecture could no longer be replaced.
Elijah Adams
Yeah M$ naming is stupid. I remember being 15 and thought the x86 software version was better than the x64.
Aaron Sullivan
Intel wanted people to move to IA64, with their expensive and ridiculously complex Itanium CPUs (x86 was never meant to last as long as it has, Intel had other plans). AMD put forth much more palatable 64-bit extensions to x86 instead, world+dog told Intel to shove it. Intel begrudgingly made their own version, EM64T, not 100% compatible. AMD64 stuck, Intel rebranded theirs and adapted, and now both companies license each other the tech so nobody else can compete.
One thing Itanium had that I liked though, was the plethora of registers. You could keep a lot more in the CPU and avoid moving shit in and out of the stack over and over. x86 was always starved in that regard, x86-64 is a fair bit less constrained but still nowhere near IA64.
Andrew Rodriguez
Different instruction set. Mostly similar these days.
Jace Diaz
>why is x64 often called AMD64?
Because AMD created X86-64, not intel
Levi Cox
intel had its own intel64 architecture, but that was a complete failure and went extinct, that's why
Adrian Rodriguez
IT'S NOT FAIR
David Morales
That is actually IA64.
Joshua Ortiz
>does intel suck?
Yes
Samuel Johnson
Intel gambled and lost on IA-64 and yes.
They suck.
Noah Perez
AMD innovates all the time and it's either hit or miss. At least they try.