this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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[–] teppa@piefed.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Intel owns x86, AMD owns x64. Which is funny.

Intel tried to make Itanium which was incompatible with x86 in order to become a monopoly, but AMD extended x86 with x64. AMD won in the end due to adoption, their first chip was the original Athlon64, which came shortly after the pentium 4 and the ghz wars.

[–] wer2@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Intel had a rough time of it then, the Itanium and Pentium 4 were both dead ends design wise.