Sign up ×  I have an intel i5 chip. Yesterday I visited and
selected the 64-bit download option from the menu. The file
which downloaded has the suffix '-amd64'. Is this going to work
on my intel chip?  share|improve this question  2 Answers 2  up
vote 0 down vote accepted  Yep. Sure will. I have to spend
thirty characters saying "yes" here. So, "yes". :)
share|improve this answer Thanks Jim. Any hints as to why it
says 'amd' when it is for both amd and intel? –  Kim Prince Nov
18 '12 at 21:54 Because amd originally hit the market with
64-bit processors which could run either 32-bit (i686) or 64-bit
code; Intel was busily pushing Itanium, which was a completely
separate platform and failed miserably. After Itanium finished
cratering, Intel responded to the market that was hungrily
gobbling up amd64 chips by building their own. The other way
you'll see this platform referred to is "x86_64", but in most
places in the linux world it's still just "amd64" both because
amd got there first and because it's easier t