Quoting from PORTALIT:

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced that its virtualization technology is now available through royalty free licenses. The licenses are designed to encourage its widespread adoption by hardware and software developers.

"Continuing our leadership role, AMD's I/O virtualization technology is expected to provide performance benefits in commercial servers, but it also opens the door to new and exciting uses for virtualization in desktop and notebook PCs, where device virtualization is particularly challenging,” said Marty Seyer, senior vice president, Commercial Business and Performance Computing, Microprocessor Solutions Sector, AMD. "We have embraced the industry’s ecosystem, and are very pleased to continue our collaborative approach to the development of AMD's virtualization technology by sharing this specification publicly and making it available through licenses across the hardware and software development community."

AMD has built an alliance with XenSource, Microsoft and VMware which it hopes it will provide the industry with leading edge virtualization technology.

"Virtualization helps customers overcome the physical boundaries and underused capacity of IT systems, and is a key stepping stone for customers to increase operational efficiency and become more dynamic and responsive to business needs," said Jeff Price, senior director, Windows Server Division, Microsoft Corp. "Microsoft is working closely with AMD to help open the way for a new class of innovation, to make IT systems not only more cost-effective, but also more secure, manageable, and interoperable."