The AMD64 architecture is as you most likely know the foundation of AMD’s popular Opteron and Athlon 64 processors that have even caused the chip giant Intel some concern the last couple of years. AMD will soon launch its Socket AM2 platform and even if it is for the first time in a very, very long time it will switch memory standard it is still the AMD64 architecture it is working with. It is still uncertain when AMD’s next generation processor architecutre will be launched and exactly how much will be different compared to today’s, but there are still many good reason to learn more about AMD’s most successful architecture so far.
At Hardware Secret they’ve published an article that will walk you through how the AMD64 architecture works and it does so in a very easy manner so that even those with a not so deep technological education can get a good grip of the architecture. A very interesting article for those who wants to learn more about the AMD64 architecture and its layout that has been such a huge success the last couple of years.
