What EXACTLY is the difference between intel's and amd's ISA, if any?
问题 I know people have asked similar questions like this before, however there is so much conflicting information that I really want to try and clear it up once and for all. I will attempt to do so by clearly distinguishing between instruction set architecture (ISA) and actual hardware implementation. First my attempted clarifications: 1.) Currently there are intel64 and amd64 CPU's out there (among others but these are the focus) 2.) Given that an ISA is the binary representation of 1 or more