intel 64bit?

Dedhi Sujatmiko sujatmiko.dedhi at gmail.com
Sat Jan 9 14:13:36 UTC 2010


Josef Wolf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-releases/9.10/ is stated, that the 64
> bit version is for AMD processors only. So I am curious: how to install 64 bit
> for intel processors?
>   

Which Intel Processor you are using?
Intel has 2 kind of 64 bit architecture :
a. the original Intel IA-64 (Itanium)
then since it did not get accepted nicely in mass market, later on they 
licensed the code from AMD, thus the
b. AMD64 or generically called x86-64

Most likely the consumer market are populated with the Intel processor 
with AMD64/x86-64 compatible. Thus the same media or kernel version for 
AMD 64 bit will also works with the Intel x86-64.




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