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AMD Announces Ambitious Goal to Increase Energy Efficiency of Processors Running AI Training and High Performance Computing Applications 30x by 2025

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a goal to deliver a 30x increase in energy efficiency for AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct accelerators in Artificial Intelligence (AI) training and High Performance Computing (HPC) applications running on accelerated compute nodes by 2025.1 Accomplishing this ambitious goal will require AMD to increase the energy efficiency of a compute node at a rate that is more than 2.5x faster than the aggregate industry-wide improvement made during the last five years.2

Accelerated compute nodes are the most powerful and advanced computing systems in the world used for scientific research and large-scale supercomputer simulations. They provide the computing capability used by scientists to achieve breakthroughs across many fields including material sciences, climate predictions, genomics, drug discovery and alternative energy. Accelerated nodes are also integral for training AI neural networks that are currently used for activities including speech recognition, language translation and expert recommendation systems, with similar promising uses over the coming decade. The 30x goal would save billions of kilowatt hours of electricity in 2025, reducing the power required for these systems to complete a single calculation by 97% over five years.

“Achieving gains in processor energy efficiency is a long-term design priority for AMD and we are now setting a new goal for modern compute nodes using our high-performance CPUs and accelerators when applied to AI training and high-performance computing deployments,” said Mark Papermaster, executive vice president and CTO, AMD. “Focused on these very important segments and the value proposition for leading companies to enhance their environmental stewardship, AMD’s 30x goal outpaces industry energy efficiency performance in these areas by 150% compared to the previous five-year time period.”

“With computing becoming ubiquitous from edge to core to cloud, AMD has taken a bold position on the energy efficiency of its processors, this time for the accelerated compute for AI and High Performance Computing applications,” said Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research. “Future gains are more difficult now as the historical advantages that come with Moore’s Law have greatly diminished. A 30-times improvement in energy efficiency in five years will be an impressive technical achievement that will demonstrate the strength of AMD technology and their emphasis on environmental sustainability.”

Increased energy efficiency for accelerated computing applications is part of the company’s new goals in Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) spanning its operations, supply chain and products. For more than twenty-five years, AMD has been transparently reporting on its environmental stewardship and performance. For its recent achievements in product energy efficiency, AMD was named to Fortune’s Change the World list in 2020 that recognizes outstanding efforts by companies to tackle society’s unmet needs. 

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In addition to compute node performance/Watt measurements3, to make the goal particularly relevant to worldwide energy use, AMD uses segment-specific datacenter power utilization effectiveness (PUE) with equipment utilization taken into account.3 The energy consumption baseline uses the same industry energy per operation improvement rates as from 2015-2020, extrapolated to 2025. The measure of energy per operation improvement in each segment from 2020-2025 is weighted by the projected worldwide volumes4 multiplied by the Typical Energy Consumption (TEC) of each computing segment to arrive at a meaningful metric of actual energy usage improvement worldwide.

Dr. Jonathan Koomey, President, Koomey Analytics, said “The energy efficiency goal set by AMD for accelerated compute nodes used for AI training and High Performance Computing fully reflects modern workloads, representative operating behaviors and accurate benchmarking methodology.”

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About AMD

For more than 50 years AMD has driven innovation in high-performance computing, graphics and visualization technologies ― the building blocks for gaming, immersive platforms and the datacenter. Hundreds of millions of consumers, leading Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge scientific research facilities around the world rely on AMD technology daily to improve how they live, work and play. AMD employees around the world are focused on building great products that push the boundaries of what is possible. For more information about how AMD is enabling today and inspiring tomorrow, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) website, blog, Facebook and Twitter pages.

AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, EPYC, Instinct and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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1 Includes AMD high performance CPU and GPU accelerators used for AI training and High-Performance Computing in a 4-Accelerator, CPU hosted configuration. Goal calculations are based on performance scores as measured by standard performance metrics (HPC: Linpack DGEMM kernel FLOPS with 4k matrix size. AI training: lower precision training-focused floating point math GEMM kernels such as FP16 or BF16 FLOPS operating on 4k matrices) divided by the rated power consumption of a representative accelerated compute node including the CPU host + memory, and 4 GPU accelerators.
2 Based on 2015-2020 industry trends in energy efficiency gains and data center energy consumption in 2025.
3 The CPU socket and GPU node power consumptions are based on segment-specific utilization (active vs. idle) percentages then multiplied by PUE to determine actual energy use for calculation of the performance per Watt.
4 Total 2025 Server CPUs – 18.8 Mu (IDC – Q1 2021 Tracker), Total HPC CPUs – 3.3Mu (Hyperion- Q4 2020 Tracker), Total 2025 HPC GPUs 624k (Hyperion HPC Market Analysis, April ’21)


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Clario awarded SAS Global Service Provider Partner of the Year

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This award recognizes Clario’s commitment to delivering the levels of excellence and innovation required to ensure data integrity in clinical trials.
Clario receives award for its broad endpoint technology solutions and scientific expertise, which together enhance data integrity and regulatory compliance for its customers.Clario’s services, combined with SAS® analytics solutions, set a new benchmark in data management, underscoring the value Clario brings to its customers.Coupled with Clario’s support of 62% of last year’s FDA approvals and the two recent data security certifications, these accomplishments emphasize its significant contribution to healthcare research advancements.PHILADELPHIA, April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Clario, a healthcare research and technology company that delivers the leading endpoint technology solutions for clinical trials, today announced it has been awarded the 2024 SAS Global Service Provider Partner of the Year for delivering superior value to its customers. SAS, a leader in data and AI, celebrated the recipients of its annual partner awards at SAS Innovate, its flagship event for business leaders, technical users and SAS Partners. This award recognizes Clario’s commitment to excellence and innovation, which together ensure that the clinical trial data Clario delivers to its customers meets stringent data integrity standards and global regulatory compliance requirements.

Clario has consistently demonstrated its expertise in developing and integrating advanced technological solutions to meet the evolving clinical trial needs of its customers. Clario’s services, combined with SAS technology, standardize clinical data for regulatory compliance purposes. This standardization streamlines the regulatory review process, ensures data integrity, and facilitates compliance with regulatory standards set by entities such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
“We are honored to be recognized as the SAS Global Service Provider Partner of the Year. This award reaffirms our commitment to leading the way in innovative technological solutions for high-quality and more consistent clinical trials for our customers around the world,” said Jay Ferro, Chief Information, Technology and Product Officer at Clario. “Having supported 62% of the FDA approvals last year, along with our recent data security milestones ISO 27001:2022 certification and SOC2 Type II attestation, Clario is powering the advancement of healthcare research, ensuring we meet the highest standards in data management.”
Clario’s broadest endpoint technological solutions and its partnership with SAS address the challenges of data management in healthcare research. This collaboration not only ensures data integrity and streamlines regulatory processes but also underscores the value it brings to its customers.
For more information on Clario and its clinical trial data management platform, please visit Clario.com.
About Clario
Clario is a leading healthcare research and technology company that generates the highest quality clinical evidence for our pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device partners. We offer comprehensive evidence-generation solutions that combine eCOA, cardiac safety, medical imaging, precision motion, and respiratory endpoints.
Clario’s science, technology, and operational experts have helped deliver over 26,000 trials and contributed to over 800 regulatory approvals in more than 100 countries. For more than 50 years, we have provided deep scientific expertise and the broadest endpoint technologies to help transform lives around the world.
Clario Media Contact:Alexis NavratilCommunications [email protected]
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Clarivate Acquires Global QMS, Inc., Expanding Life Sciences & Healthcare Segment into New Markets

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Acquisition supports critical client workflow and reporting needs with proprietary SaaS platform, automating regulatory report authoring and compliance across manufacturing operations, supply chain and quality management
LONDON, April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT) a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced that it has acquired Global QMS, Inc., known as Global Q, a provider of cloud-based solutions that enable life sciences clients to automate regulatory reporting and compliance management. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 

Global Q supports leading pharma, medtech and biotech companies by providing comprehensive access to linked and standardized workflow-ready data via its SaaS platform, Optiqs360 Digital™. The platform includes MediGPT – WorkCenter™ and MediGPT – IntelliWriter™, solutions that provide clients with interconnected data visibility and common user interfaces, across internal and external sources of record. The tools support the complex workflows and reporting needs of clinical, regulatory, product lifecycle and quality management professionals, significantly streamlining annual product reviews, medical device reports and supply chain insights. 
Clarivate brings together connected data, deep expertise and intelligence solutions to empower life sciences and healthcare companies to deliver safe, effective and commercially successful treatments to patients faster. The acquisition of Global Q bolsters a robust integrated platform of life science intelligence solutions from pre-clinical and clinical offerings and further expands Clarivate capabilities in manufacturing and supply chain management to include regulatory report authoring and compliance management. The workflow and reporting capabilities of Global Q complement the Clarivate Cortellis Generics Intelligence solution for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) tracking. The addition of these cloud-based solutions will serve to embed Clarivate into critical client workflows and enable the expansion of Clarivate services into new markets.
Henry Levy, President, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Clarivate, said: “Clarivate continues to explore, develop and integrate next-generation workflow automation software that streamlines and digitizes manual workflows. The acquisition of Global Q builds on our strategy to deliver solutions that empower our clients to advance treatments that improve patient lives. The combined expertise, data and technologies of Clarivate and Global Q will help to address the client need for connected data to support complex analyses and evidence-based decisions in the life sciences.”
Mitch Hayes, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Global QMS, Inc., said: “The acquisition of Global Q by Clarivate reinforces our joint missions to help global organizations obtain profound insights and efficiencies in bringing life-saving therapies to their patients worldwide. The combined business will further the vision of putting contextually aware intelligence directly into our customers’ workflows and facilitating their daily tasks in ways never before possible.”
Life sciences professionals responsible for new product development, manufacturing and regulatory compliance are looking to connect the dots across multiple data points to accelerate their treatment and prevention efforts and realize better patient health outcomes. Harmonized and connected data sources can address the industry need for content authoring automation spanning multiple systems and workflows. The acquisition of Global Q enables Clarivate to seamlessly tap into the digital thread market, allowing for proprietary data and insights gleaned from Clarivate solutions to frictionlessly be integrated into customer workflows.
Following the successful acquisition and integration of companies, including Decision Resources Group (DRG), Bioinfogate, Patient Connect, Dialog (part of ProQuest) and IP from MotionHall, the acquisition of Global Q further demonstrates the continuing investment by Clarivate in high-value data, analytics and innovative technology paired with deep subject matter and technical expertise within its Life Sciences and Healthcare segment.
As a trusted partner in shaping the future of healthcare, Clarivate proactively addresses industry demands through intelligence platforms that connect data and use AI and advanced analytics to revolutionize patient engagement, overcome access barriers and fulfill unmet needs. The complementary solutions of Clarivate and Global Q will better position the company in a market that favors innovative tech-enabled providers with end-to-end capabilities and unique market-leading data sets.
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About Clarivate Clarivate™ is a leading global provider of transformative intelligence. We offer enriched data, insights & analytics, workflow solutions and expert services in the areas of Academia & Government, Intellectual Property and Life Sciences & Healthcare. For more information, please visit www.clarivate.com 
About Global QMS, Inc.Global QMS, Inc., known as Global Q, is a provider of a cloud-based intelligent workflow platform that gives our customers an interconnected workspace that allows them to have a composite view of all their product data (“digital threads”), including internal R&D, post market, regulatory, manufacturing, and others, as well as external feeds and real-world data.
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9fin grows leadership team with VP Content promotion

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9fin has bolstered its senior leadership team with an internal promotion for a newly created VP Content positionThe promotion demonstrates the strong bench of leadership talent at 9fin and will ensure the company’s content offering continues to be best in classThe company continues to expand with open roles in its US and UK officesNEW YORK, April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — 9fin (https://9fin.com/), a news and analytics platform for debt capital markets, has announced the promotion of Will Caiger-Smith to VP Content, as the business continues to scale rapidly across Europe and the US.

Will was previously 9fin’s US Managing Editor. In his new VP Content role, he joins Jen Speirs, who was promoted to VP Operations last year, in the company’s growing leadership team.
Both VP positions have global mandates and demonstrate 9fin’s continued investment in people and its commitment to rapidly progressing talented leaders within the business.
As VP Content, Will directs all news and analytics across the editorial, credit, legal and ESG teams. The promotion comes as 9fin has expanded from its core leveraged finance coverage into private credit, distressed debt, and structured credit (CLOs) across Europe and the US. These new verticals further the company’s mission to be the #1 provider of data, news and analytics globally across debt capital markets.
Will continues to report directly to 9fin’s CEO and co-founder Steven Hunter.
Will Caiger-Smith commented:
“I joined 9fin because I believed the company and its founders had the vision and technology to build the comprehensive debt intelligence platform the market needs,” said Will. “In my two and a half years at this company, that belief has only intensified. I’m delighted to be driving forward the content side of the business.”
Steven Hunter, CEO and co-founder of 9fin, said:
“I’ve been incredibly impressed by Will’s contributions to scaling 9fin in just a couple of years. He opened and scaled our US office from scratch and has built a world-class team. I am delighted to see him promoted into a new expanded role and join Jen as part of our VP level leadership. I am excited to work with them both to take 9fin to the next level”
About 9fin
9fin is the faster, smarter way to find intelligence on leveraged credit. Our AI-powered data and analytics platform centralises everything that’s needed to analyse a credit or win a mandate in one place, helping subscribers win business, outperform their peers, and save time. 9fin is trusted by the largest asset managers in the world, leading law firms and advisers  in debt capital markets, and nine of the top 10 investment banks.
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