2010 Core vPro CPUs arrive: major vendors promise systems

Stephen Withers
Thursday, 04 February 2010 16:48

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Intel is pitching its latest processor family at the mainstream business market.

Tight economic times may mean that businesses have kept older desktop systems in action for longer than users would have liked. Intel is hoping that its latest processors deliver enough of a performance improvement to shake the moths out of those corporate wallets.

"Businesses, particularly those that haven't purchased PCs for several years, face a computing environment that no longer handles the applications many workers and IT are adopting," said Rick Echevarria, vice president of Intel's architecture group, and general manager of its business client platform division.

"The integration of intelligent performance along with smart security and cost-saving manageability features in the Intel Core vPro processor family provide IT and SMBs a no-compromise platform. We also are excited about how Intel vPro Technology gives IT the flexibility to look at client virtualisation, consumerisation and rich cloud applications." he added.

Like other recent Intel CPUs, the 2010 Core i5 vPro and Core i7 vPro chips incorporate Turbo Boost (essentially a form of automatic overclocking) and Hyper Threading (faster processing of multiple threads).

Intel claims that a notebook based on the 2010 Core i5 vPro will, compared with a three-year-old notebook, run business applications up to 80% faster, run multiple application sup to twice as fast, and decrypt files up to 3.5 times quicker.

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