Following up its introduction of new server chips on Monday, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today debuted a trio of central processing units for business laptops under the Ryzen Pro 5000 brand.

Like the latest additions to AMD’s server portfolio, the Ryzen Pro 5000 series is based on its seven-nanometer Zen 3 core design. The top-end CPU in the series is known as the 5850U and features eight Zen 3 cores. The two lower-end processors feature six and four, respectively. 

AMD says that the top-end 5850U can deliver 57% more multithreaded performance than a comparable Core i7-1185G7 chip from Intel Corp.’s laptop CPU lineup. According to AMD, the performance advantage will translate into up to 23% faster speeds for workers when running applications such Microsoft Corp’s Office suite.

As far as battery life is concerned, customers who purchase business laptops powered by the 5850U can expect their machines to run for upwards of 17 hours on a single charge in certain conditions.

The Ryzen Pro 5000 series is part of AMD’s broader Pro-branded portfolio of chips for business-grade computers, which also includes CPUs for desktops. The chips ship with security and management features not included in the company’s consumer silicon.

AMD gives information technology teams access to tools that allow them to monitor the health of corporate laptops and perform maintenance tasks remotely even if they’re powered off. An integration with Endpoint Manager, Microsoft’s software tool for managing fleets of Windows business computers, provides additional administrative features. 

On the cybersecurity side, Ryzen Pro 5000 uses a technology known as a shadow stack to mitigate the risk posed by malware. Many types of malware seek to steal data by hijacking legitimate programs already installed on a worker’s machine. AMD’s shadow stack technology can detect such attacks by identifying signs of tempering in the parts of a computer’s memory where an application keeps information on its operations.

A related cybersecurity feature AMD provides customers of its Pro-branded chips is Memory Guard. It encrypts a computer’s entire memory pool, which the chipmaker says can prevent hackers from reading the data inside even if they gain physical access to a machine.

Laptops and notebooks powered by the newly introduced Ryzen Pro 5000 series will become available for purchase in the second quarter. By AMD’s estimates, the number of business-grade notebooks featuring its silicon is on track to triple this year. 

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