The Platform of Choice for Business Computing

Intel vPro® with 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors

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Businesses today are demanding more from their technology than ever before. With remote work now commonplace, users need a computing experience that empowers productivity wherever they may be. Furthermore, technology decision makers require platforms that facilitate these new workplace trends and that can also be deployed and maintained with confidence. The Intel vPro® platform with 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors meets these technology demands and offers a wide array of computing options to empower businesses of all sizes.

Leading Business Productivity

12th Gen Intel Core processors feature a new architecture consisting of performance cores and efficient cores that excel at both single-threaded and multithreaded software environments.1 This architecture empowers users to be more productive and enjoy higher performance from their PC, especially for multitasking and collaboration. Performance is optimized in real time by Intel® Thread Director, which works with the operating system to assign the right task to the right core at the right time.2 This level of sophistication enables business PCs to execute demanding workloads, inclusive of user applications and IT software.

In addition, the new 12th Gen Intel Core processor family addresses the computing needs of nearly every type of worker, with an extensive portfolio of mobile and desktop processors with varying core counts and power offerings.

The performance of 12th Gen Intel Core processors is further enhanced with support for DDR5 and LPDDR5 memory. Intel vPro Enterprise entry workstations also support ECC memory with the corresponding Intel chipset.

Intel offers networking and I/O solutions that result in a more complete platform. 12th Gen Intel Core processors integrate Intel® Wi-Fi 6E Gig+ and mobile platforms also feature the new Intel® Connectivity Performance Suite, which optimizes wireless performance for popular use cases such as video conferencing.3 Mobile users may also adopt Thunderbolt™ 4 docking solutions to connect peripherals to the PC via a single cable for a more elegant workspace. Intel vPro continues to support traditional wired connectivity for the 1 Gbps and 2.5 Gbps Ethernet standards.

Comprehensive Platform Security

Intel vPro features a comprehensive set of security technologies to help protect the full computing stack, including hardware, firmware, the operating system, and applications. These features support the dynamic root of trust, OS reporting, and an expanded set of policies for protecting system management mode (SMM) operations. Intel vPro continues to meet or exceed Microsoft Secured-core PC requirements, depending on the device.

Intel® Control Flow Enforcement Technology (Intel® CET), available on mobile beginning with 11th Gen Intel Core processors, comes to desktop processors for the first time with the 12th Gen Intel vPro platform. Intel CET helps protect against malicious code insertion into applications executing in PC memory.

Also, Intel® Threat Detection Technology (Intel® TDT) has been upgraded for 12th Gen Intel Core processors, making anti-virus software more effective at intercepting threats.

Finally, with Intel® Total Memory Encryption - Multi-Key (Intel® TME-MK) and Intel® Virtualization Technology with Redirect Protection (Intel® VT-rp), Intel vPro offers new hardware support for OS virtualization.

Modern Device Management

Workplace trends are driving demand for remote device management. Intel vPro continues to support remote out-of-band management, including over Wi-Fi and options to reach devices via the cloud, even if they are beyond the corporate firewall.

These capabilities include Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT), which provides remote keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) control of devices and life cycle management features for device sanitization and recovery on select OEM PCs.

Driving Business Continuity

All PCs built on Intel vPro are also part of the Intel® Stable IT Platform Program (Intel® SIPP), which aims for zero changes to the platform over a five-quarter device deployment window. Intel SIPP covers key Intel hardware and software in the platform, and the program includes enterprise-class platform validation for the supported operating systems. Intel SIPP enables corporations to minimize computing disruptions, simplify device qualification, and employ scheduled device purchase and deployment practices.

Intel vPro also enables reliable updates with automated restart and recovery of a failed firmware update. This capability spans both UEFI/BIOS and the Intel® Management Engine firmware, and it facilitates conducting firmware updates over the life cycle of a Windows PC.

Built for All Businesses

Intel vPro delivers professional-grade performance with a comprehensive set of capabilities to help protect and manage devices. These devices are available for every persona, with computing solutions for nearly every type of worker at any business of any size. With increased remote collaboration, multitasking, plus user and IT apps competing for computing resources, Intel vPro is vital for enabling worker productivity and maintaining business continuity.

For more information, please visit www.intel.com/vpro.