I guess you know more about hardware nomenclature Linux kernel developers, because they call modern Intel/AMD and ARM CPUs amd64 and aarch64, respectively.
I guess you know more about hardware nomenclature Linux kernel developers, because they call modern Intel/AMD and ARM CPUs amd64 and aarch64, respectively.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
AMD64 is the name of the instruction set they program to, it has nothing to do with how many bit the CPU is. Except obviously the core instruction set is 64 bit, but as I’ve tried to explain, a chips bit width is not realistically determined by instruction set alone.
Although they are almost identical, the equivalent Intel is called i64.
AArch64 Is the Arm Architecture family 64, again the instruction set you program for.