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I'm new to developing apps for the Android OS platform (on Windows version of Android Studio) so I'm pretty ignorant. While trying to debug a "toy" app, I noticed that the About box (of Android Studio) says the runtime version is 11.0.10 ...amd64. The "amd64" gave me pause. Is this, in fact, correct for the Windows64 installation of Android Studio (Artic Fox | 2020.3.1)?

Jack Smith
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    The Intel x86_64 architecture is a re-implementation of the amd64 architecture. Intel abandoned the x86 architecture for its 64bit cpu Itanium, rightly dubbed Itanic. During that time, AMD came up with a 64bit variant of the ancient x86 architecture. Once itanic started sinking in earnest, intel had to implement its own version of the amd64 instruction set. – mevets Jan 16 '22 at 19:37
  • @mevets - thanks for the history!! i was wondering how x86_64 and amd64 differed because i've seen them used interchangeably. – jkr Jan 16 '22 at 20:12

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