processor

Stari Karp starikarp at yandex.com
Sat Jan 20 19:06:48 UTC 2018


On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 16:33 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 18/01/2018 22:43, Stari Karp wrote:
> > Does it mean that the motherboard is AMD and CPU is Intel. But why
> > uname -m shows amd64, please?
> 
> amd64 is the FreeBSD name for what Linux calls x86_64.  It's the
> Intel
> x86-compatible 64 bit architecture that was first produced by AMD,
> which
> Intel later adopted.
> 
> Yes, your processor is from Intel, but it is using a 64-bit
> instruction
> set authored by AMD based on an earlier 32-bit Intel work.  Your
> motherboard will be from Apple[*], but it uses Intel chipsets for
> most
> things.  There is an AMD Radeon graphics card amongst various other
> components for a number of different suppliers.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
> [*] It's probably a custom board specially developed for Apple by one
> of
> the specialist motherboard manufacturers, and re-badged by Apple.
> 

Yes, it is Apple computer.

Thank you very much.



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