Monday, January 25, 2010

Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Family

Monday, January 25, 2010


PCs powered by the new 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor family adapt to the needs of your business with smart security, cost-saving manageability, and intelligent performance. The Intel Core vPro processor family is designed to keep downtime and desk-side visits to a minimum, enabling remote monitoring, diagnosis, and repair of PCs—even if they are shut down or the OS is unresponsive.¹
Intelligent security and manageability on every chip
Offering expanded remote manageability, select laptop and desktop PCs—powered by the Intel Core vPro processor family—provide new KVM Remote Control capabilities² along with enhanced data and asset security. Including programmable defense filters that systematically guard against viruses and malicious attacks, the Intel Core vPro processor family helps to automatically protect PCs from tampering or disabling of security software.
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Features and benefits
Laptop and desktop PCs powered by the Intel Core vPro processor family delivers cost-cutting efficiency and maximum productivity with the intelligence of hardware-assisted Intel® technologies built in:
Performance
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology maximizes speed for demanding applications, dynamically accelerating performance to match your workload—more performance when you need it the most and energy savings when you do not.³
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) enables highly threaded applications to get more work done in parallel. With eight threads available to the operating system, multi-tasking becomes even easier.4
Intel® HD Graphics provides superb visual performance for sharper images and richer color.
Security and manageability
KVM Remote Control allows IT to see what their customers see, reliably through all states, even beyond firewalls.²
AES-NI enables new processor instructions to accelerate and protect encryption operations.
Remote encryption management provides the capability to remotely unlock encrypted drives that require pre-boot authentication while managing data security settings even when the PC is off.
Intel® Anti-Theft Technology, disables access to data in the event of theft or loss by delivering a "poison pill" while providing simple remote reactivation on PC recovery.
Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT)¹ allows IT to better discover, heal, and protect their networked computing assets.
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) allows IT to remotely manage systems while providing highly secure, centralized, and virtualized IT services to end users.5
Streamline Windows 7* deployment by quickly and remotely upgrading PCs overnight, minimizing disruptions to users, and without losing access to legacy applications.
Intel® Centrino® Ultimate-N 6300 offers premium performance and innovative features with up to an 8x bandwidth.6
Activate Intel® vPro™ technology for immediate cost savings and recoup your investment in as little as ten months°
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¹ Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) requires the computer system to have an Intel® AMT-enabled chipset, network hardware and software, as well as connection with a power source and a corporate network connection. Setup requires configuration by the purchaser and may require scripting with the management console or further integration into existing security frameworks to enable certain functionality. It may also require modifications of implementation of new business processes. With regard to notebooks, Intel AMT may not be available or certain capabilities may be limited over a host OS-based VPN or when connecting wirelessly, on battery power, sleeping, hibernating or powered off. For more information, see http://www.intel.com/technology/platform-technology/intel-amt/index.htm.
² KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) Remote Control requires the presence of integrated graphics and therefore is only available with dual-core Intel® Core™ i5 vPro™ processors and Intel® Core™ i7 vPro™ processors.
³ Intel® Turbo Boost Technology requires a PC with a processor with Intel Turbo Boost Technology capability. Intel Turbo Boost Technology performance varies depending on hardware, software, and overall system configuration. Check with your PC manufacturer on whether your system delivers Intel Turbo Boost Technology. See http://www.intel.com/technology/turboboost/index.htm for more information.
4 Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) requires a computer system with a processor supporting Intel® HT Technology and an Intel® HT Technology-enabled chipset, BIOS, and operating system. Performance will vary depending on the specific hardware and software you use. Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology is not available on the Intel® Core™ i5-750 processor. For more information including details on which processors support Intel® HT Technology, see http://www.intel.com/technology/platform-technology/hyper-threading/index.htm.
5 Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT), and Intel® 64 architecture require a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, enabling software and/or operating system, device drivers and applications designed for these features. Performance will vary depending on your configuration. Contact your vendor for more information.
6 Up to 8X bandwidth increase based on the theoretical maximum bandwidth enabled by 3x3 Draft-N implementations with three spatial streams in combination with a three spatial stream access point. Actual wireless throughput and/or range will vary depending on your specific operating system, hardware and software configurations. Check with your PC manufacturer for details.
Δ Intel® processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. Based on a Model Company developed by Wipro Technologies in a March 2009 study titled "Using Total Cost of Ownership to Determine Optimal PC Refresh Lifecycles." Actual results may vary based on the number of use cases implemented and may not be representative of the results that individual businesses may realize.


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Advances in Internet Security


Intel Technology Journal, Volume 13, Issue 2 is dedicated to Internet security threats and their remedies viewed from a multitude of dimensions. The Journal's content architect, David Durham, has assembled a rich sampling of research findings provided by Intel Labs researchers who are working to thwart security challenges from complementary perspectives.
For those of us who remember the early days of the Arpanet, it is astonishing to contrast that simple world with today's Internet. On the one hand, we are within a keystroke of mountains of information. On the other hand, the world is within a keystroke of us, for better and for worse. This Intel Technology Journal is about making the Internet world a safer place to be....


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Intel Driver Download


Open Drivers collect all Intel drivers for one-stop free driver download. Intel drivers include Intel Display and Video Driver, Intel BIOS and System Update Driver, Intel Network Driver, Intel Cameras and MP3 Player Driver, Intel Mainboard Drivers and Utilities Driver, Intel Modem driver. Open Drivers maintain the list of Intel drivers available for free Download. All Intel drivers can be searched and downloaded from opendrivers.com driver archive.


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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Intel's latest Xeon processor

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Intel Corp. recently announced the availability of its last planned single-core Intel Xeon processor with 2MB of L2 cache running at 3.80GHz. Drop-in compatible with the previous Intel Xeon processor platforms, this processor offers power-saving features such as Demand Based Switching, enhanced performance, and flexibility with support for Hyper-Threading Technology, DDR2-400 memory and PCI Express. The company also introduced a 64bit Intel Xeon processor 2.80GHz with 2MB L2 cache for servers used in small and medium business environments.
"We are aggressively driving the transformation to an entire new generation of multi-core servers. As the most widely-deployed 64bit platform in the industry, Xeon is the clear server and workstation workhorse for business," said Diane Bryant, VP of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group and GM of Intel's Server Platforms Group. "And as we support the transition to multi-core enterprise computing, Intel is already sampling next-generation processors and platforms that will consume orders of magnitude less power and incorporate new platform technologies that deliver leadership manageability, virtualization and I/O efficiency."
Intel also announced new low voltage versions of its Intel Xeon processor line, including the 64bit Intel Xeon processor LV 3GHz with a 55W processor power envelope and the 64bit Intel Xeon processor MV 3.20GHz with a 90W processor power envelope. Both processors are targeted at server rack and blade designs where space is constrained and power-efficiency is a priority.
The 64-bit Intel Xeon processors with 2MB L2 cache at operating speeds of 3.8GHz and 2.8GHz are available for $851 and $198, respectively, in 1,000-unit quantities. The 64bit Intel Xeon processor LV 3GHz is priced at $519, while the 64bit Intel Xeon processor MV 3.20 GHz is available for $487 in 1,000-unit quantities


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