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AMD Launches Ryzen PRO CPUs: Enhanced Security, Longer Warranty, Better Quality (anandtech.com)
Reader harrisonweber shares a report: This morning AMD introduced their Ryzen PRO processors for business and commercial desktop PCs. The new lineup of CPUs includes the Ryzen 3 PRO, Ryzen 5 PRO and Ryzen 7 PRO families with four, six, or eight cores running at various frequencies. A superset to the standard Ryzen chips, the PRO chips have the same feature set as other Ryzen devices, but also offer enhanced security, 24 months availability, a longer warranty and promise to feature better chip quality. The AMD Ryzen PRO lineup of processors consists of six SKUs that belong to the Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 families targeting different market segments and offering different levels of performance. As one would expect, the Ryzen 7 PRO models are aimed at workstation applications and thus have all eight cores with simultaneous multithreading enabled, the Ryzen 5 PROmodels are designed for advanced mainstream desktops and therefore have four or six cores with SMT, whereas the Ryzen 3 PRO models are aimed at office workloads that work well on quad-core CPUs without SMT. The specifications of the Ryzen 7 PRO and the Ryzen 5 PRO resemble those of regular Ryzen processors. Meanwhile, the Ryzen 3 PRO are the first chips from the Ryzen 3 lineup and thus give us a general idea what to expect from such products: four cores without SMT operating at 3.1-3.5 GHz base frequency along with 2+8 MB of cache.
Ryzen 7 = Core i7
Ryzen 5 = Core i5
Ryzen 3 = Core i3
Ryzen Pro is Xeon equivalent?
Life is not for the lazy.
This time it does: it encrypts the main memory. So in the DRAM only encrypted data is stored. It gets decrypted on the fly, transparently when loaded into the CPU, so there is no special support needed by the OS or any software. This does increase latency of course.
This encryption can also be used to encrypt VMs running on the CPU, where every VM has a different randomly created AES key, isolating VMs from each other.
But what is the point of this encryption when the keys are still in disk and in memory somewhere, or how does the server boot up without admin? Does it go to eleven?