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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced it is collaborating with Rapidus Corporation to provide co-optimized AI-driven reference design flows and a broad IP portfolio to support the Rapidus 2nm gate-all-around (GAA) process and leverage the design and manufacturing benefits from Rapidus’ backside power delivery network (BSPDN) technology. As the semiconductor industry struggles to keep up with significantly increasing design challenges driven by the need for more computation, GAA and BSPDN manufacturing technologies are becoming vital to meet increasingly stringent power, performance and area requirements.

The AI-driven digital and analog/mixed signal reference design flows encompass numerous solutions from Cadence, including Cadence ^®...

Accenture is launching an on-demand learning program led by Accenture experts and powered by content from Stanford Online, designed to equip business and technology leaders with the knowledge and skills to harness the full potential of generative AI and drive greater business value for their organizations while balancing societal considerations.

The Generative AI Scholars Program offers more than 40 hours of self-paced, best-in-class online learning taught by leading Stanford faculty and lecturers through Stanford Online course material, combined with industry insight from Accenture experts. Blending lectures, engaging discussions and practical insights pulled from peer experiences, it goes beyond theory to provide...

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• Effectively addressing sustainability factors throughout the product lifecycle is becoming a critical business imperative. Customers increasingly expect products—and the processes behind their development, delivery, and operation—to align with ever more stringent sustainability standards.
• Companies that embed sustainability evaluations early in their development process and across their supply chain will have a competitive advantage in the marketplace, improve their efficiency and resiliency, and meet sustainability goals, which leads to long-term profitability
• Manufacturers across all industries need to adopt an integrated approach to calculating both cost and carbon footprint earlier in their design and...

Centric Software^® is delighted to announce the release of a success story featuring its customer, OTS, a leading Italian manufacturing company. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and related goods like cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Founded over 20 years ago, OTS is headquartered in Piove di Sacco, Italy. Specializing in ready-to-wear clothing, OTS today serves high-end clients such as Kering and the LVMH Group, offering end-to-end...

Oracle Corporation announced fiscal 2025 Q2 results. Total quarterly revenues were up 9% year-over-year, in both USD and constant currency, to $14.1 billion. Cloud services and license support revenues were up 12% year-over-year, in both USD and constant currency, to $10.8 billion. Cloud license and on-premise license revenues were up 1% in USD and up 3% in constant currency, to $1.2 billion.

Q2 GAAP operating income was $4.2 billion. Non-GAAP operating income was $6.1 billion, up 10% in both USD and constant currency. GAAP operating margin was 30%, and non-GAAP operating margin was 43%. GAAP net income was $3.2 billion. Non-GAAP...

Infor, the industry cloud complete company, today announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Consumer Goods Competency status. As an AWS Partner, Infor has earned the AWS Consumer Goods Competency designation, which recognizes its expertise in delivering validated solutions to help consumer goods brands overcome operational challenges within the industry. By leveraging deep industry knowledge and proven AWS solutions, Infor empowers clients to streamline their operating models and achieve greater efficiency at scale.

Infor has achieved the AWS Consumer Goods Competency, distinguishing itself as a provider that has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success. This competency showcases Infor’s...

IBM has unveiled breakthrough research in optics technology that could dramatically improve how data centers train and run generative AI models. Researchers have pioneered a new process for co-packaged optics (CPO), the next generation of optics technology, to enable connectivity within data centers at the speed of light through optics to complement existing short reach electrical wires. By designing and assembling the first publicly announced successful polymer optical waveguide (PWG) to power this technology, IBM researchers have shown how CPO will redefine the way the computing industry transmits high-bandwidth data between chips, circuit boards, and servers.

Today, fiber optic technology carries...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 10 December 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a whitepaper titled “Critical Digital Transformation Elements: Leveraging MCAD consolidation to improve digital transformation results” and a related commentary “Supercharge Digital Transformation by Consolidating CAD to NX.”

The white paper discusses how integrating Mechanical Computer-Aided Design (MCAD) improvements with digital transformation initiatives can yield significant business benefits. It underscores the importance of MCAD data in driving these initiatives. It also highlights the challenges of using multiple MCAD systems, including increased complexity, costs, and risks in the product development lifecycle.

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Key Takeaways

• Mechanical CAD data migration has been a very difficult problem for decades.
• MultiCAD support is needed sometimes, but a single CAD solution is much more efficient and effective.
• CAD data is foundational to digital transformation improvements, and using multiple CAD solutions adds complexity, cost, and risk to product design and realization processes.
• The Siemens Content Migration Manager for CAD Solutions (CMM) enhances NX’s utility by maximizing the transfer of design intelligence from legacy CAD data to support the reuse of CAD models, drawings, and designs, thereby enriching the digital transformation initiative.

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The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), the trusted global leader in computing benchmarks, today announced the availability of the SPECworkstation 4.0 benchmark, a major update to SPEC’s comprehensive tool designed to measure all key aspects of workstation performance. This significant upgrade from version 3.1 incorporates cutting-edge features to keep pace with the latest workstation hardware and the evolving demands of professional applications, including the increasing reliance on data analytics, AI and machine learning (ML).

The new SPECworkstation 4.0 benchmark provides a robust, real-world measure of CPU, graphics, accelerator, and disk performance, ensuring professionals have the data they need to make informed...