Dassault's SolidWorks 3DExperience World event runs this week, from February 11-14 this year at the Kay Bailey Convention Center in Dallas, and AMD is proud to be a sponsor of the show. Dassault develops design, modeling, and manufacturing software used by millions of customers across the world. Applications like CATIA® and SolidWorks® offer local installation options or cloud-based deployments and can scale to meet the needs of anything from a small business to a large industrial engineering firm.

With the continued growth and importance of data centers comes the unfortunate reality of data breaches and the need for stronger and more powerful security systems. Cisco has upped the ante in data protection with its new Secure Firewall 4200 Series, which provides large enterprises and data center service providers alike with exceptional performance, strong scalability plus a host of innovative features. AMD and Cisco have an extensive history of collaboration, including the prior-generation Cisco Secure Firewall 3100 Series which garnered accolades and strong customer adoption. Now with its latest Secure Firewall 4200 Series, Cisco has added new capabilities that are enabled by the powerful, dynamic duo of AMD EPYC™ Embedded 7003 processors and Versal™ Adaptive SoCs.

In the fast-paced world of technology, staying ahead of the curve is essential. Today, we are thrilled to announce the future of computing with the all-new Google Chromebook Plus line of devices powered by AMD Ryzen™ 7000 C-Series processors.  These products redefine the quality and experience standard for Mainstream laptops.  Get ready to experience a leap in performance, functionality, and design that will elevate your computing experience to unprecedented heights.

As data processing units become increasingly recognized as the key to next-generation data centers, the focus has been on hardware capabilities.  In this post we discuss two key advantages of AMD Pensando™ DPUs: the software stack and development tools.

In the previous article “Ultrathin SOLIDWORKS Workstations - Benchmarking the Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 1 AMD”, we touched on the battery life of that mobile workstation when configured with the standard 52.5Wh battery option. Running SOLIDWORKS on battery power, we could get up to 2-3 hours of constant use before the system required a recharge.

Since then, Lenovo has supplied us with the same laptop, but with a large-capacity 86Wh battery. Here, we’ll reveal our comparison testing results and share some important lessons about balancing battery and performance in Windows 11.

I’m pleased to share with you that AMD Pensando DPUs are accelerating Microsoft Azure. With the recent announcement of Accelerated Connections available now for Public Preview, Azure customers can achieve orders of magnitude higher networking performance.  This new service offering is an architectural shift that decouples the DPU adapter and SDN stack from the server. 

Digital twin innovation is a major focus for many of our customers, and Embedded World visitors were treated to an early preview of digital twin technology in action for humanoid robotics applications, courtesy of MakarenaLabs (Verona, Italy). MakarenaLabs specializes in advanced information technologies in the field of embedded cloud design, artificial intelligence, hardware acceleration and multimedia systems.

At this year's OCP Regional summit in Prague Czechia AMD is showcasing peripheral attestation using DMTF SPDM communication between the 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ processor (as SPDM Responder) and AMI’s Tektagon XFR (as SPDM Requestor).  To further demonstrate interoperability, the peripheral attestation flow is repeated with BMC (as SPDM Requestor) hosted on AMD’s DC-SCM card contributed to OCP.

Scalability of silicon initialization firmware across the Host firmware landscape has always been a challenge, demanding increased security as nimbler host firmwares become main stream. AMD openSIL resolves this problem statement at scale and embraces the open source for trust and open to industry wide adoption.

SOLIDWORKS users love the power of their big, bulky workstations, but the computing industry is always innovating and improving. Can the latest lightweight laptops keep up with the needs of a CAD professional?