One of the reasons I went with AMD processors and mobo chipsets for my non-laptop system (and recommend them for anyone who's not concerned about performance pe

One of the reasons I went with AMD processors and mobo chipsets for my non-laptop system (and recommend them for anyone who's not concerned about performance per watt) is because AMD doesn't segment the market by processor features. You choose based on power budget, thermal budget, and presence of on-die graphics. Regardless of how you choose, all processors in a given generation (back to at least the Phenom series and associated mobo chipsets) have ECC support, virtualization support, and whatever other fancy features were slapped in in that generation.