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Agreed, but, not really for servers/enterprise usage which the parent thread was about...

For example, I7/I9 is much cheaper and more powerful than entry level Xeons, but, you VERY rarely see them in a rackmount chassis/server.

Same goes for Epyc and Ryzen.

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The main enterprise thing you get from Xeon and not Core is ECC memory, but Ryzen does support ECC memory, and anybody can put it in a rackmount chassis.

Whether or not it's common, it's available if you want it.

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