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> Intel was responsible for most of this.

Only in the sense of "Intel is responsible for most of computation" ... No one uses ECC pervasively anywhere, that's sort of the point of the article.

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Intel has been pretty intent on making ECC server-only. I used their HEDT platforms for years and never had ECC. AMD is much nicer about the thing; if you want to use ECC on their HEDT platform, you can if you want. It's not super supported, but it's also not a $5000 upgrade. (Though my understanding is that ECC is mandatory for the current generation of Threadripper? That's great!)

ECC is fully supported by consumer AMD processors (at least Ryzen 7000, and I think earlier ones too). You need to pick a matching motherboard, most boards from ASRock will do. And you need to find unbuffered ECC RAM, this is more difficult than the previous two and is why I had to give up on the whole idea.

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