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48-bit virtual addresses are the most common in use today. All AMD, ARM64 processors, and most of Intel's. Only recent Intel chips support PML5 (5-level paging), giving them 57-bits of virtual address space. There are no 64-bit processors that can use a full 64-bits of virtual address space.


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