>I think they came with multi-core cpus around the same time if not a bit earlier than Intel. My recollection is that Intel made it to the consumer market firs

>I think they came with multi-core cpus around the same time if not a bit earlier than Intel. My recollection is that Intel made it to the consumer market first, but did so in a kind of hacky manner. The original Pentium D was actually two dies on a single package, whereas the Athlon X2 was a multicore package with coherent cache from the start. I believe AMD did beat Intel to the server market, but this is all from memory, so I can't say for certain.