Jan 3, 2011 · Intel licensed the AMD64 instruction set for their non-Itanium 64 Bit CPUs. That means, yes, AMD64 is one of the generic names for the x86 64 bit architecture. Of course your CPU can run 32 bit x86 kernels as well - but this is not recommended since you lose all the benefits of the x86-64 architecture (mainly bigger address space and more ...

Mar 26, 2015 · AMD64 is the real 64 bits architecture that AMD created and intel licensed it and uses it even today (just as AMD had the license to use x86 on the 32 bit CPUs). x86_64 far as i know is nothing more than a 32 bit CPU that can address the extra memory that a supposed 64 bit system need (so like a 32 bit system that recognizes and uses more than ...

Jun 18, 2014 · Acer Aspire 5745G-724G50MNKS is 64 bit so you can run the amd64 download on it. I use the serial number (7545G) to google it and try to find items that included the architecture. Shops sell it with Windows 64 installed.

Apr 22, 2017 · The best way to determine if you have a 64-bit-capable system is to figure out the CPU identifier and then using your favorite Internet search engine to find out if it is indeed a 64-bit processor or not. I would say that unless your consumer-grade computer is from around 2004 or earlier, odds are very good that it is 64-bit-capable.

Mar 22, 2014 · The difference between amd64 and i386 is that amd64 is 64-bit while i386 is 32-bit. This is the width (in bits) of registers available in the core. Basically the largest number that a 32-bit CPU core can handle in one go is a little over 4.29 billion while a 64-bit core can handle a number of a bit over 18.44 billion, billion.

The following text appears on the official Ubuntu page: "Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead."

The 64-bit instruction set currently used in desktop computers was invented by AMD, which is why it's sometimes referred to as "amd64", even though it is used by both AMD and Intel processors. A less confusing name for the same instruction set is "x86-64", reflecting the fact that it's 64-bit extension to the original x86 instruction set.

Apr 13, 2015 · AMD64 and i386 refers to the architecture, not the manufacturer. To answer the question "Is it a problem to have packages with “amd64” architecture when I have an intel cpu?" - no, it isn't. However, there may be some special cases when the amd64 package is known to have problems and the recommendation might be to install the i386 package ...

Sep 22, 2020 · Modern AMD and Intel CPUs all support the amd64 architecture. There are other architectures, but they're niche, and you would probably know if you had a CPU with one of those niche architectures because you would have bought the CPU with a particular goal in mind. Most CPUs that people buy for workstations, gaming PCs, etc., use amd64 architecture.

From your details I assume you run a 64-bit Ubuntu host, likely Ubuntu 12.04 beta. It is not clear what version of Virtual Box is installed. The at present most recent Virtual Box release is 4.1.14. Depending on your CPU you also may want to enable it's virtualization features in the BIOS (VT-x for Intel, or AMD-V).