14 DAY TRIAL // Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced today the debut of its new VISION Pro technology, a commercial PC platform that will be enabled on future computer systems, aimed at business consumers. The new platform has already been enabled in the new ThinkPad X100e, revealed by Lenovo today, which will be showcased during CES 2010, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“At virtually every price point, commercial PCs based on VISION Pro Technology from AMD offer incredible value and the balanced platform performance needed to leverage today’s visually oriented business applications,” said Nigel Dessau, chief marketing officer of AMD. “With support for the latest in open standards-based security features, as well as the performance headroom needed for standard productivity applications, VISION Pro Technology has been designed to provide businesses with PC systems that generate, propagate and display world-class business materials.”
Designed for business consumers, the new platform, which can be recognized through the black and green AMD Vision Pro sticker, has been featured with a couple of security technologies, including Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and AMD's Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP). In addition, the platform also includes the AMD client virtualization technology (AMD-V), which will add hardware support for the Windows XP Mode, in Windows 7.
“Business customers have told us that they want to use their PCs for business applications, as well as the full set of consumer scenarios in Windows 7,” said Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Windows Platform Strategy at Microsoft Corp. “To respond to these needs, Windows 7 Professional and Vision Pro technology from AMD deliver the manageability required by businesses without compromising the performance and functionality end users demand.”
The platform includes the chip maker's M880G and M880MC chipsets and the dual-core Turion II Ultra, Turion II, Athlon II and AMD V series of processors. Moreover, users will take advantage of the Mobility Radeon HD 4200 and 4100 integrated graphics, as well as the Mobility Radeon HD 5000 discrete graphics.