AMD Delivers Business-Ready Desktop Offerings to Solution Providers
with AMD Business Class Initiative
Now Available Worldwide, New Motherboards Designed for Small and
Medium Business Market Available to Channel Partners
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (Business Wire EON) April 27, 2008 --
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today 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.
“AMD remains committed to offering the channel
industry-leading AMD processor and chipset solutions to help
differentiate their products and services in the marketplace,”
said Mario Rivas, executive vice president, Computing Solutions Group,
AMD. “Designed with business in mind,
motherboards for the AMD Business Class program are rigorously tested
and validated, offering solution providers the ability to make
assurances of platform stability and longevity to the commercial
customers who require these attributes.”
Industry-Leading Stability and Longevity
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) (a). 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.
“MSI is proud to continue our collaboration
with AMD to deliver high-performing motherboard solutions that support
the industry-leading stability and longevity, exceptional performance
and energy efficiency, and essential security and manageability of the
AMD Business Class platform,” said Vincent
Lai, global marketing director, MSI. “By
introducing K9A2VM-FD & K9N2GM-FD, AMD Business Class desktop customers
can realize consistency, longevity, and reliability to help minimize IT
disruptions and get more from their computing infrastructure, longer.”
“Equus Computers is committed to offering
high-value solutions to our customers, with the customized capabilities
to help them navigate the challenges of their industry,”
said Joe Toste, Vice President of Marketing, Equus Computers, the
largest whitebox system builder to the channel. “We’re
looking forward to working with AMD to broaden our own portfolio of
business offerings with AMD Business Class, help us differentiate our
offerings in a highly-competitive marketplace, and provide better
business value to our customers.”
Open Platform Approach
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.
“Our ongoing relationship with AMD continues
to deliver outstanding value, options, and innovation on AMD
processor-based platforms. The new AMD Business Class solutions are a
perfect example because businesses have the flexibility to choose NVIDIA
chipset-based motherboards to meet their needs,”
said Drew Henry, general manager of MCP business at NVIDIA.
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.
“AMD Business Class provides Dacco with a
desktop business product sensitive to the needs of our customers -
energy-efficiency, multi-application processing and impressive visual
performance” said said Esa Poikolainen,
managing director, Dacco. “The added
ease-of-business with stable, validated motherboards and AMD processors
completes an attractive and competitive offering.”
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.
“As graphics performance increases in
importance for businesses using next-generation operating systems and
multiple monitors, ECS’s collaboration with
AMD will stay focused on delivering innovative systems that help enhance
productivity through unparalleled graphics capabilities,”
said Kevin Yang, general manager, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS),
mainboard, add-on card and system products. “The
new AMD780V M-M2 provides multiple graphics monitor capabilities for
faster, smoother, clearer performance on even the most demanding
applications.”
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.
“Nor-Tech is excited by the possibilities
extended by AMD Business Class to help us support a wide range of
customers, particularly those who want an open, flexible solution,”
said Todd Swank, Vice President of Marketing, Nor-Tech, the second–largest
custom systems builder in the US. “We
appreciate that the AMD Business Class standard utilizes open industry
standards, including TPM and support for today’s
widely-used in-band systems management tools. For the many schools,
hospitals and government agencies we work with, the use of open
standards lends another layer of essential security and manageability to
future-proof their mission-critical systems.”
To learn more about the AMD Business Class initiative, please visit http://www.amd.com/businessclass.
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.
About AMD
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is a leading global provider of
innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer
electronics markets. AMD is dedicated to driving open innovation, choice
and industry growth by delivering superior customer-centric solutions
that empower consumers and businesses worldwide. For more information,
visit http://www.amd.com.
(a) Available for all PIB processors and those
tray processors sold under specific agreement with AMD through
contracted distributors.
©2008 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Phenom, AMD Athlon, ATI Radeon, and
combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Windows Vista is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation in
the U.S. and other jurisdictions. ENERGY STAR is a registered
trademark of the U.S. Government. Other names are for
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owners.
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