Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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But that also gives Intel more time before they have to knife Itanium, and reduces the pressure, if it exists, to adopt x86-64.

It could also be that AMDs (alleged) release of a 32bit K8 is a sign that they don't need to push the porting issue, i.e. that Intel will be supporting AMD64 in the near future. I don't know if I believe that, but it's a possibility.