Re: Intel to let go, re-assign 16,000 workers

Richard wrote:
IA32 or IA64 are the names that Intel gives to the architecture.


IA64 is the name given to the architecture that currently has products
named "Itanium". IA32 referred to the family of 8086 chips that ran in
32 bit mode.

Since the 8086 now runs in 64 bit mode, IA32 is no longer applicable and
IA64 is already taken.
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