I just came back from a nice dinner hosted by Dell at Masa's, one of the fine restaurant in San Francisco. The goal was to set the stage for today's Intel press event launching the next-generation of vPro technology, code-named Weybridge. Mike Basore, a Dell senior product manager (pictured) for the company's OptiPlex desktop line will be showing the maker's enterprise PCs using the Intel's new business client platform based on the Intel Core 2 Duo E6x50 processor and the Q35 Express chipset. Weybridge will incorporate Intel's Trusted Execution Technology, support for new management specifications (DMWG 1.0 and WS-MAN), as well as Intel's virtualisation technology for directed I/O.

Intel will also announce the simplification of it's confusing branding yanking the Duo and Quad labels and keeping the Core 2 brand as its main, with the vPro moniker for business desktop and Centrino/mobile solutions, and Viiv for consumer desktops. Here's a link to a picture summarising the changes plan for next January, courtesy of HK site EPC. Still confused? More on Monday when the embargo officially lifts.