If you narrow the statement down to "the highest performance network gear don't use Xeons", I suppose you get to be right. Almost all of my data-center securit

If you narrow the statement down to "the highest performance network gear don't use Xeons", I suppose you get to be right. Almost all of my data-center security and packet inspection devices have a Xeon or two in them. The Cisco ASAs, Fireeye APT probes, Imperva WAFs, F5 load balancers, Sourcefire IDS. A couple of them also have packet processing support hardware (Endace cards, mostly), but that's mostly for taking the packet processing off the Xeons and letting them do just the inspection. But hey, we're only doing a couple of gig sustained, so we aren't the cool kids.