Short for “Commercial Stable Image Platform”, it is a specification aimed at businesses for OEMs that guarantees parts supplied in particular configurations for a period of 15 months will all be identical, something that Intel has already been doing for some years. This is in response to increasing industry awareness of alternatives to Intel and the rate of adoption for AMD processors in the workplace increasing. The current specification puts the Athlon64 X2, Athlon64, and Turion64 in partnership with certain manufacturers only, such as nVidia, ATI, ASUS, ECS, Gigabyte, MSI, Broadcom and Atheros.