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x86-64 is a 64-bit superset of the x86 instruction set architecture. Because the x86-64 instruction set is a superset of the x86 instruction set, all instruction in the x86 instruction set can be executed by central processing unit (CPUs) that implement the x86-64 instruction set; therefore these CPUs can natively run programs that run on x86 processors from Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and other vendors. x86-64 was designed by AMD, who have since renamed it AMD64. It has been cloned... full article at wikipedia
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