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by potkor 4903 days ago
Intel chips have supported it pretty soon after AMD, since the latter-day Pentium 4s (from 2004 on).
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Not true -- the original Core series was x86-only, with x64 coming in the Core 2 line.
No, it's quite true. Some of the Prescott model Pentium 4's released in '05 supported x64, but the Yonah Core processors released in '06 didn't. That's mostly because Yonah was only intended to be a mobile chip. When it ended up being better in many ways than the Pentium 4 Intel quickly released the 64-bit Core 2 as a successor to both.