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Competitive Analysis·2026 Edition

Compare Enterprise-class
PC Silicon Security

Essential Security Usages for Corporate Fleets.

Intel evaluated 13 essential security use cases that define a modern enterprise security posture for PC fleets. Below: scoring methodology, head-to-head summary results, feature category scores, and 3rd-party studies — all in one continuous view.

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By the numbers

A head-to-head, normalized comparison — built on independent functional tests and Intel's evaluation criteria.

Categories evaluated
13
Essential security usages spanning hardware-rooted boot integrity through AI-era memory protections.
Features compared
~100
Underlying features and security programs scored against a consistent business criteria.
Average rollup gap
+27ptsIntel
Mean gap across the five rollup categories — widest at AI Security (+34 pts), narrowest at Memory Protections (+12 pts).
Years of vPro®
21
Two decades of platform hardening — from rootkit defense to confidential AI compute.

Intel vPro® — the world's most secure business PC for today's threats.1

Based on Intel's evaluation of 13 essential enterprise security use cases.
02 · Scoring Methodology & Process From features to a normalized score
Methodology

From features to a normalized score

Intel scored the features and security programs needed to achieve each use case and applied a consistent business criteria — measuring feature deployment reach, impact for IT, market demand, and implementation difficulty. Each category's score was normalized, and the percentage scores for Intel and AMD were calculated.

Inputs
~100 features
across 13 security usage categories
Compute
Sum of feature points + Business Scoring*Max Score
Output
Normalized %
Feature score
*Business Scoring = Reach + Feature Impact + Market Demand + Implementation Difficulty. Each contributes equal weight. The resulting score is normalized so that comparable categories produce comparable percentages, regardless of how many underlying features they contain.
01
Feature Deployment Reach
How broadly the feature is available across the silicon and OEM ecosystem.
02
Impact for IT
How materially the feature reduces operational risk or workload for enterprise IT.
03
Market Demand
Customer pull, ISV uptake, and demand-side signals validating the feature's relevance.
04
Implementation Difficulty
Engineering effort and platform integration depth required to deliver the feature at scale.
78%
Intel vPro®
46%
AMD

Intel leads by +32 pts on the normalized aggregate.

The feature-level infographic abstracts this comparison into five higher-level rollup categories, each containing several use case scores. The widest functional gap shows up in AI Security (+34 pts); the narrowest in Memory Protections (+12 pts).

Three lenses on the same data: aggregate gap +32 pts (78 vs 46) · average rollup gap +27 pts (5 categories) · widest single category +34 pts (AI Security).

03 · 13 Categories Tap or hover for definitions
All 13 categories

13 categories that define modern enterprise security

The essential security usage categories that frame the entire analysis. Each category aggregates a set of features and business scoring criteria — together, they cover the full attack surface of a modern PC fleet.

Defense in depth — anchored in silicon.

Every category in the analysis maps to one or more layers of the platform stack. The deeper the protection lives, the harder it is to bypass. Intel vPro®'s advantage compounds at the hardware layer.

AppApplications & ISV ecosystem
OSOperating system + VBS
FirmwareUEFI, BIOS, microcode
HardwareSilicon root of trust

Each tile shows a category name. Hover to read the full definition.

01
Platform Assurance
Hardware-rooted attestation that confirms the platform is in a known-good, untampered state from boot through runtime — including silicon-validated SDLC programs.
02
Supply Chain Security
Verifiable trust from silicon manufacturing through deployment. Digitally attestable SKUs prove that delivered silicon matches design-specs.
03
Hardware Security Engines
Dedicated silicon engines that isolate cryptographic, identity, and key-management workloads as the platform's root of trust.
04
Secure Boot
Cryptographic verification of boot components — the first line of defense against rootkits and bootkit attacks.
05
BIOS/FW Protection
Validate integrity and expected measurements of firmware during boot. Protect both firmware and BIOS integrity from boot to runtime.
06
VBS for Apps & Credentials
Virtualization-based security that isolates credentials and high-value applications from the running OS — protecting key material in dedicated enclaves.
07
Attest Device Health
Remote attestation of device-level Trusted Computing State — boot logs, OS hardware policy status, and runtime telemetry flagging anomalies.
08
Memory Protections
Hardware mitigations against memory-safety exploits, side-channel leaks, and confidential-computing primitives for in-use data protection.
09
Security for AI
Hardware-accelerated protections for AI workloads — model integrity, prompt-isolation, and inference safety primitives anchored in silicon.
10
AI Threat Detection
Using AI models — running on-die or on-NPU — to harden the endpoint itself: anomaly detection, threat hunting, and adaptive policy enforcement.
11
Security Control Assessment
Continuous validation that policy controls are configured and operating as intended across the fleet — mapping hardware capabilities to enterprise policies.
12
Security Remediation
Out-of-band recovery and remediation paths for compromised endpoints, even when the OS is unreachable. Includes Intel AMT-class controls.
13
Ecosystem Enabling
Programs and SDKs that bring ISVs, OEMs, and enterprise IT onto a common security baseline — including the AI-PC security ecosystem.
04 · Normalized Summary Analysis Spider + bar, two views, one dataset
Head-to-head

Normalized summary analysis

The graphics below represent the same roll-up data presented in spider and bar chart views. Each category's score was normalized, and the percentage scores for Intel and AMD were calculated. Intel is dramatically ahead in demand security usage areas: AI-based security, supply chain security, and the security ecosystem software-enabling programs for AI PCs.

13 Security Usage Categories · Normalized %
0 25 50 75 100
Intel
AMD

Intel vs. AMD — normalized category %

Intel vPro® AMD
Adoption is outpacing readiness across the AMD fleet. Intel is dramatically ahead in the demand security usage areas of AI-based security, supply chain security, and the security ecosystem software-enabling programs for AI PCs. The widest functional gap is AI Security at +34 pts; the narrowest is Memory Protections at +12 pts.
05 · Feature Category Scores Tap or hover for market context
Five rollups
Tap or hover the tiles · score and name always visible

Feature category scores

The 13 categories abstract up into five higher-level rollups. Score and bold name stay always visible. Hover any tile to surface the underlying paragraph and market factoids that shape each rollup.

Rollup Category
AI Security
84%
vs. 50% AMD
AI for Security: AI in CPU and network to deliver an additional layer of detection. NPU-isolation primitives + AI-PC ecosystem programs deliver the widest functional gap in the analysis.
Intel Differentiation+34 pts
Patent Impact60%
Market PullHigh
Rollup Category
Below-OS Security
79%
vs. 52% AMD
Hardware-rooted boot & firmware protections plus dedicated security engines. Includes secure boot, FW update integrity, and protected boot process attestation.
Intel Differentiation+27 pts
Patent Impact55%
Years Hardened21
Rollup Category
Product Security Assurance
74%
vs. 49% AMD
Reduces program risk through a hardened SDLC + silicon validation gates. Day-one mitigations on disclosed CVEs across the last 24 months.
Day-1 Mitigations96%
Industry Ranking#1
Intel Differentiation+25 pts
Rollup Category
Supply Chain
71%
vs. 44% AMD
Verified silicon-to-shelf provenance covering enterprise PC fleets at scale through the Intel Transparent Supply Chain program.
Annual CoverageMillions
Patent ReachTier 1
Intel Differentiation+27 pts
Rollup Category
Attack Detection & Device Recovery
68%
vs. 41% AMD
Out-of-band recovery via Intel AMT-class controls remediates compromised endpoints even when the OS is unreachable. Remote attestation of platform Trusted Computing State at scale.
Patent Reach (PCRTM)150+
Patent Impact55%
Intel Differentiation+27 pts
06 · Reports & Studies Reports & 3rd-party studies
Reports & 3rd-party studies

Explore the full analysis & third-party studies

Intel invites you to read the new Intel Product Security Report and the 3rd-party studies that performed head-to-head functional tests and provided insights into the key security usages scored in this analysis.

Report
Intel Product Security Report 2026

The annual deep-dive into vPro® security posture, advisory cadence, and platform-hardening commitments.

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3rd Party
Intel vs. AMD Functional Test

Independent head-to-head functional benchmarks across the 13 categories — by an independent security lab.

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Study
AI PC Security: Threats & Controls

An analyst view of the new attack surface introduced by NPUs and on-device AI — and the controls that matter.

Open study →
Brief
Win 11 Security Refresh

How the Win 11 hardware-security baseline maps to vPro® silicon — and where AMD-based fleets fall short.

Read the brief →
21yrs
Of Intel vPro® security — a clear leader that innovates new security capabilities hardened in enterprise deployments.
intel
Best choiceto protect the business
AMD
Incompleteattack surface protections

Intel vPro® — the world's most secure business PC for today's threats.1

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