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Last year, AMD introduced Ryzen Pro, a range of processors aimed at corporate desktops rather than consumer systems. Though broadly identical to their consumer counterparts, the Pro chips offer additional guarantees around supply and availability so that corporate fleets can standardize on particular chips without risking a part being discontinued mid-way through their replacement cycle. The Pro chips also carry longer warranties and emphasize certain security and management features that may not be present or enabled in consumer systems.
The first Ryzen Pros had a major omission, however: they didn't include integrated GPUs. Corporate desktops and laptops, typically used for Office, Web browsing, and other low-intensity tasks, overwhelmingly use integrated GPUs rather than discrete ones; they simply don't need anything more powerful. The need for separate GPUs meant that the first-generation Ryzen Pros had only very limited appeal in their target corporate market.
The new processors, however, follow in the footsteps of the Ryzens with integrated Vega graphics launched in February, pairing a single core complex (CCX; a bundle of four cores/eight threads and a shared level 3 cache) with a Vega GPU. This makes them a complete solution for the corporate desktop.
Source: GPU-equipped Ryzen Pros give AMD what it needs to conquer the corporate desktop
(Score: 4, Touché) by frojack on Sunday May 20 2018, @09:03PM (2 children)
But can you turn that stuff off when it is eventually found that it can be remotely hackable?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @09:33PM (1 child)
And if you turn it off, will there be a hack to turn it on?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday May 21 2018, @04:13PM
Nope, it'll be turned on in the next update that doesn't fix the vulnerability.
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