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TAKE YOUR BUSINESS CUSTOMERS TO A NEW LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE
 In today’s difficult economic environment, your business customers want to invest in technology that will give their company a competitive advantage. Powerful graphics are important to successful business communications and innovative companies are leveraging them to generate and view rich visual presentations, including videos and 3D graphics to communicate winning ideas. Commercial PCs based on VISION Pro Technology from AMD offer out-of-the-box support for multiple monitors, seamless viewing of videos, use of video conferencing software, and the performance necessary to create and view rich presentations with embedded video and 3D graphics.
Business customers also want technology that will allow their employees to be as productive as possible. VISION Pro Technology will allow your customers to enjoy advanced visual productivity on applications running on Windows® 71 Professional. It can also:
- Increase worker efficiency for spreadsheet or text productivity applications through multi-monitor support. Ultrathin or mainstream notebooks connected to additional monitors can add up to 40% increased productivity.2
- Transcode your customers’ sales, demonstration or presentation videos for your Web site up to 75% faster with Sony® Movie Studio 9 Platinum with accelerated VISION technology.3
- Convert their videos to smaller file size formats or web streaming formats up to 43% faster.4
- Provide your customers’ sales team and road warriors with up to 17% better productivity capabilities for the software they use most on their VISION Pro Technology-based ultrathin notebooks.5
To help ensure businesses stay up and running with fewer IT interruptions, VISION Pro Technology supports the manageability and security features that are critical today, with the flexibility to grow with businesses in the future. Security features supported by VISION Pro Technology include the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), AMD’s Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP), and key Windows® 7 Professional features 6. AMD client virtualization technology [AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) technology] provides the full, chip-level optimization needed to support legacy applications under Windows XP Mode 6.
Perfect for the business customer, from the small business to the enterprise, VISION Pro Technology offers superior value and the balanced performance your customers need to power today’s visually oriented business applications. VISION Pro Technology supports the latest open standards-based manageability and security features, delivers the performance headroom needed for standard productivity applications, and was designed to generate, propagate and display the world-class business materials your customers are creating every day.
SIX-CORE AMD OPTERON™ PROCESSORS AND ATI STREAM TECHNOLOGY LEAD THE WAY AT SUPERCOMPUTING ‘09
 Each year, AMD and its channel partners gather in the U.S. to show off and discuss the most powerful supercomputers in the world, all of which are driving widespread innovation in HPC, technologies that eventually become the computing norm for businesses of all sizes. For example, this year showcased the #1 supercomputer in the world based solely on commercially available x86 AMD OpteronTM processors – the same technology available to you and your customers.
Some of the highlights from the show include:
- Demos of next-generation eight- and twelve-core AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processors, currently codenamed “Magny-Cours”. These processors feature DDR3 memory for greater throughput in HPC applications.
- ATI Stream technology demonstrations, showcasing the superior performance achievable with both CPU and GPU technology – leading the industry in what is a growing trend.
- Discussion and anticipation of AMD’s next-generation architecture, codenamed “Bulldozer”, featuring a modular core design that is planned to dramatically increase concurrency, simultaneous commands and multi-threading capacity with up to 16 dedicated cores, all designed to significantly improve HPC performance.
As your enterprise and SMB customers look to remain at the cutting edge of technology, you can often look to the HPC market as one that provides insight into what’s next. This year was no different as AMD proved to not only empower the world’s most powerful supercomputer on the planet, but also the most powerful GPU-based supercomputer. For a full breadth of industry-leading products, the choice is clear.
DOMINATE THE MAINSTREAM GRAPHICS MARKET WITH THE ATI RADEON™ HD 5670 GRAPHICS CARD
As our channel partners know, the highly sought after mainstream gamer is often difficult to please. They want their PC to handle the latest and greatest games, to deliver an immersive experience, to be easy to upgrade, and most importantly – to get great value for their money. AMD now offers the ideal product to meet these needs, designed to deliver the new standard in mainstream graphics – the ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 graphics card.
 This graphics card allows you to provide your customers with features and performance previously only found at the high-end, at a price point that reaches a volume market at under $100 USD2. Even better, AMD offers features the competition just can’t match:
- ATI Stream technology to accelerate non-
gaming computing tasks such as video
transcode and DVD upscaling3
- Multi-monitor support with ATI Eyefinity
technology for immersive entertainment4
- Full DirectX®11 support, empowering your
customers to achieve incredible HD gaming
performance5
While the competition may tell you to wait, AMD knows the next-generation of gaming is here today with DirectX® 11, and the performance gains are real6:
To offer a superior gaming and multimedia experience for your customers, look no further than the ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 graphics card. HD gaming starts here.
AMD AND AUTODESK MAKE COMPLEX PROFESSIONAL GRAPHICS SIMPLE
 Whether your customers are in high end Computer Aided Design (CAD), Digital Content Creation (DCC) or any other field that requires superior workstation graphics performance, they are undoubtedly searching for solutions that make their work more seamless and visually rich. Autodesk is a leader in the 2D and 3D design and engineering software market, but insuring the hardware powering this software works with ease is not always quite so simple.
AMD eases stress for its channel partners by offering the entire family of ATI FirePro™ graphics accelerators certified by Autodesk. These certifications span a variety of applications:
- AutoCAD® 2010
- Autodesk® Showcase® 2010
- Autodesk® 3ds Max®
- Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design
- Autodesk® Alias® family of products
- Autodesk Inventor®
- Autodesk® Maya®
- Autodesk® MotionBuilder®
- Autodesk® Mudbox™
Moreover, a single unified driver is available for all desktop and mobile ATI FirePro products from ultra high end to the entry level, making system administration and maintenance for your customers easier. With ATI FirePro™ graphics accelerators you and your customers also receive access to AMD’s dedicated workstation technical support team2. In effect, AMD allows its channel partners to deliver superior technology for complex design projects, simply.
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