Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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but there's no chance it would ever be answered.

Well, in this interview http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1362947,00.asp

eweek did not dare to ask the question, nevertheless Craig made this statement:

There is not a desktop OS that really takes advantage of that 64-bit stuff today. If the marketplace expresses a demand for that then we'll look at it carefully and decide what our next move is. We haven't been asleep at the switch on this. Our strategy is to meet what the market needs.

Now, you can read whatever you want from this. But it is definitely a significant course-change of communicating Intels position on 64-bit computing in desktop-space. [Which course would that be? Rowing back is what you mean? Ed.].
K.