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AMD Delivers Business-Ready Desktop Offerings to Solution Providers with AMD Business Class Initiative
April 2008 by Marc Jacob
AMD introduced AMD Business Class, a new program helping offer a solid and reliable foundation for desktop business computers designed to deliver the best value on the market. AMD Business Class technology provides AMD solution providers with the advantage of exceptional performance and energy efficiency, essential security and manageability, and enables them to provide a tested, validated commercial platform designed for the Small and Medium Business (SMB) market. This platform will be available to channel partners for up to 18 months under the AMD Validated Solutions (AVS) Program, addressing solution providers’ need to deliver a consistent, long-term platform roadmap based on AMD technology to their business customers. Based on the AMD 780V chipset, validated motherboards for AMD Business Class are now available worldwide from leading manufacturers including MSI and ECS and with Asus planned to be coming soon.
New AMD Business Class processors, including AMD Phenom™ and AMD Athlon™, provide up to 24-month stability and come with a three-year warranty in tray and Processor-in-a-Box (PIB)*. With AMD Business Class, solution providers and their customers may benefit from longer image-stability periods for the processor and motherboard, lengthening PC lifecycles and thereby lowering total cost of ownership.
AMD Business Class is an open platform that allows for multiple configuration options, enabling AMD solution providers to customize their offerings to meet the needs of their commercial customers. This approach provides solutions providers the opportunity to extend their reach further into the high-opportunity SMB market, as well as local, state, and federal government and education markets.
Exceptional Performance and Energy Efficiency for Solution Providers
The low idle power delivered by the combination of AMD Business Class processors and the AMD 780V chipset can assist solution providers in meeting new ENERGY STAR® 4.0 requirements, resulting in reduced power consumption and small form factors that can save space.
The combination of AMD Business Class processors with ATI Radeon™ graphics can deliver fast, smooth, clear performance on even the most demanding operating systems and business applications of today and tomorrow. Whether their employees are busy using the advanced search functions of Windows Vista® to quickly access critical data, or going back and forth between multiple application screens on two monitors, AMD Business Class delivers performance and rich visual experience to SMBs.
And with specified support for Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 and in-band systems management capability, solution providers can help their customers stay up-to-date with the latest standards without getting locked into expensive, proprietary security and manageability solutions.
– Pricing and Availability :
Pricing for the new AMD Business Class processors in 1KU include the AMD Phenom X4 9600B processor for $230, the AMD Phenom X3 8600B processor for $175, AMD Athlon X2 5400B and 5200B processors for $120 and $110 respectively, AMD Athlon X2 5000B and 4450B processors for $95 and $85 respectively, and the AMD Athlon 1640B processor for $50.
