AMD today introduced its most powerful line of AMD PRO A-Series mobile and desktop processors (formerly codenamed "Carrizo PRO" and "Godavari PRO"). For small and medium businesses without implemented management tools, AMD is introducing the AMD PRO Control Center, a shop for system configuration. The new AMD PRO Control Center enables small and medium businesses to quickly manage the power of AMD systems in the workplace. It includes key features, such as an AMD Energy Saver, PC Health Center, USB Blocker and Wireless Display.

AMD PRO A-Series mobile processors

The AMD PRO A-Series mobile processors offer an APU architecture with long battery life, power and efficiency optimized to meet the needs of enterprise computing and collaboration.

AMD is also introducing a new AMD PRO A12 processor, the fastest AMD PRO notebook processor with 3.4GHz CPU max frequency. It's the first AMD PRO mobile processor with 12 compute cores (4 CPU + 8 GPU) and the only AMD PRO mobile processor with Radeon R7 graphics, now up to 800 MHz GPU max Clock and 512 graphics compute cores.

Key features of the new AMD PRO mobile processor include:

• First commercial processor in the industry designed to be compliant with the Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) 1.0 specification to make programming accelerators such as the GPU far simpler.
• First ARM TrustZone capable commercial performance APU with a dedicated AMD Secure Processor. ARM TrustZone runs on top of the hardware enabling sensitive tasks to run on the AMD Secure Processor -- in the "secure world" -- while other tasks are run in "standard operation."
• First commercial performance APU with a true System-on-Chip (SoC) design to provide gains in CPU, graphics and multimedia performance.
• First commercial processor with High-Efficiency Video Compression (HEVC) decoder capability for mainstream notebooks to stream HD and Ultra HD content.

The AMD PRO A-Series mobile processors are available today through online resellers and are currently offered on HP EliteBook 705 series, including HP EliteBook 725, 745 and 755 series.

The AMD PRO A-Series desktop processors offer an aggressive price with performance and socket compatibility for easy upgrades. The desktop AMD PRO processors also include AMD Radeon graphics. With support for AMD Quick Stream PRO, the new AMD PRO desktop processors virtually eliminate the lag in latency-sensitive applications like VoIP and streaming video. AMD Quick Stream PRO uses built-in intelligence to identify and allot more bandwidth for businesses' highest priority applications.

The AMD PRO A-Series desktop processors are available today through online resellers and are currently offered on Lenovo M79 Tower, HP EliteDesk 705 Micro Tower PCs and Small Form Factor PCs from both HP and Lenovo.