Intel Boosts VPro Toolkit For New Westmere Chips
Banking on a resurgence in IT spending by commercial customers, Intel (NSDQ:INTC) has added several new performance improvements and remote management capabilities to its vPro-branded system platforms for the chip giant's newest desktop and mobile processors.
"We started thinking beyond the business," said Brian Tucker, director of marketing for Intel's business client platforms, at a Tuesday demo session of the company's next-generation vPro hardware held in San Francisco.
Tucker said that vPro, first conceived in 2004 as a business-oriented desktop platform enabling out-of-band provisioning of system updates and better power management, has evolved to include a notebook-tuned version with anti-theft safeguards, BIOS-level remote control capabilities, and acceleration of encryption and decryption tasks.
