Proper noun
AMD64
(computing, usually attributive) The 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture (as opposed to the original 16-bit x86 architecture, or to the 32-bit version of the x86 architecture, also known as IA-32, i386, or x86-32).
The AMD64 version of this Linux distro has higher performance than the i386 version, and doesn't suffer from the severe RAM limits imposed by 32-to-36-bit addressing.
After the demise of Windows on Alpha (and the demise of DEC), Cutler was instrumental in porting Windows to AMD's new 64-bit AMD64 architecture. Source: Internet
Mass-produced x86-64 chips for the general market were available four years later, in 2003, after the time was spent for working prototypes to be tested and refined; about the same time, the initial name x86-64 was changed to AMD64. Source: Internet
It branded its implementation of AMD64 as EM64T, and later re-branded it Intel 64. In its literature and product version names, Microsoft and Sun refer to AMD64/Intel 64 collectively as x64 in the Windows and Solaris operating systems respectively. Source: Internet
As of this writing, the mini.iso for both amd64 and i386 do not include EFI bootable binaries. Source: Internet
It will eventually market this under the name "AMD64". Source: Internet
The AMD64 extensions from AMD (originally called x86-64) added a further eight registers XMM8 through XMM15, and this extension is duplicated in the Intel 64 architecture. Source: Internet