As sswilson said, it's an option to enable in the BIOS in Intel motherboards. It is an Intel thing, so Intel boards read the XMP information from the memory.
AMD has something called AMD Memory Profile (AMP). I am not an AMD user so it isn't clear to me if AMP can automatically read the XMP settings or if you need to set the XMP settings in an AMP profile or something and then they will work because the RAM supports those settings, either manually overclocked or through XMP on an Intel board.
I've never used it, but that may help your Googling or a more knowledgeable AMD user will comment/correct me.