32-bit vs 64-bit finally clarified.
32-bit vs 64-bit finally clarified.
What am I really saying? Let me explain... This helps people who blindly follow the 64-bit phone trend and don’t understand what’s going on. Thanks for your understanding!
It’s the quickest way possible. He won’t take time to explain things that are somewhat connected... that would also involve CPU architecture design and various buses.
It originates from Intel's XX86 line of chips. For example, the 8086 was a 16-bit processor from Intel and marked the beginning of the x86 design. Probably the name reflects that history.
It's named x86 since it comes from the Intel 8086 processor design and its instruction set.