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If you claim to know anything about PCs, yes. They are the main competitor to Intel for commodity x86 architecture processors and were the original developer of the 64-bit instruction set for the x86 architecture in the early 2000s.
Edit: at the time, Intel thought the x86 instruction set was obsolete, so its strategy was to migrate to 64-bit with a new instruction set called Itanium. However they had trouble gaining adoption, and with AMD releasing their 64-bit x86 processors that pretty much killed Itanium for anything but niche applications. Until Intel released their own 64-bit CPUs, AMD was the supplier for x86 processors if you were doing something that required a lot of memory.
I… Understood some of that, I think.
Right.
This is rather out of my depth, I have to admit, haha…
OK...
20 years ago the Intel processors we all use were starting to run up against fundamental limits as to how much memory programs could use. Most things were fine, but if you were editing large videos and photos it was a problem. Intel looked at that problem and said "let's design a new processor that isn't compatible with anything else, and we'll use emulators to make all the old software compatible." AMD looked at the problem and said "let's update these processors we already have so programs can use more memory, without affecting old programs that don't need it".
AMD won, and it took Intel about a year to release something that was compatible but inferior to what AMD was selling.
But yeah, I don’t claim to know anything much about that sort of stuff…
I’m just here for the politics and occasionally the pop culture! I’m certainly not… Someone who has ever dabbled in building a PC, lol.
But I do still know what some of that means.