By Indie Kings | September 25, 2026 Updated September 25, 2026: On September 23, 2003, AMD released the Athlon 64, the first 64-bit x86 CPU. Computer security professional and retro computing writer Dave Farquhar, in a retrospective marking 23 years since the launch, argues the significance was not the 64-bit width itself but that AMD forced Intel to abandon its clean-break plan and copy AMD's approach instead. Source: This article is based on D…
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