It supports AMD cpus because, if I understand correctly, AMD licenses x86 from Intel, so it shares the same bits needed to run openVINO as Intel’s cpus.
Go look at CPUs benchmarks on Phoronix; AMD Ryzen cpus regularly trounce Intel cpus using openVINO inference.
https://docs.openvino.ai/2024/about-openvino/release-notes-o...