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Michael, you seem to forget that "x64" instructions originally were known as "amd64", as AMD created them. Intel's 64-bit chip creation, the Itanium, had a critical flaw: it ran x86 code very slow (even high clock speeds didn't help).

After some time of terrible Itanium sales, Intel wisely saw the errors of their ways and jumped on AMD's ship. Shortly thereafter they again took over server sales from AMD (the first Opteron's blew away Intel offerings, especially in mixed 32/64 bit situations).

So, why give AMD a lifeline? Because of several reasons, one of which being "Intel isn't always right."

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