Alongside the new WX hardware products, the WX4100, 5100 and 7100, AMD also revealed a new software initiative aimed at enterprises. The most important part is continued, issue-free usage of hardware solutions, but AMD stands to take a two-pronged attack: through performance-enabling hardware, as well as stable, predictable, and robust software solutions.To that end, AMD is planning to start delivering enterprise drivers on the 4th Thursday of each month, ensuring businesses can prepare ahead of time for the needed maintenance on their systems, while also guaranteeing the software passes all the needed robustness checks before being deployed, such as extended and stress testing, complying with or exceeding certification standards, and platform testing. AMD is also declaring renewed attention towards the achievement of performance improvements throughout the life cycle of its products in these enterprise scenarios. This new schedule applies to all of AMD's professional cards line-up, including the existing FirePro cards, with their most recent driver release on October 27th (driver 16.Q4) serving as the first release under this schedule.

Such a move form AMD may elicit memories: AMD was once on a monthly driver-release schedule for their drivers on the consumer graphics segment as well, which resulted in less-than-stellar optimizations and general driver health than their current as-needed basis. That said, this approach does make much more sense in the business space, where predictability and reliability, allowed by the more spaced-out driver releases, are much more important than staying on the cutting-edge of performance improvements.