Posts tagged with 40th anniversary
500 Million Down…
Posted by Nigel Dessau in 11:00 AM
Loading ...Last week we announced that AMD has shipped 500 million x86 processors. This is a very real achievement, and one that we’re rightly proud of. 500 million is one of those numbers that is difficult for the human mind to grasp, like sand on a beach or stars in the sky.
Suffice to say, it’s a lot of processors.
It seems very appropriate that this milestone is arriving during our year-long 40th Anniversary Celebration, providing yet another indicator of AMD’s indelible impact on our industry, and on consumers the world over.
Back in April, I posted about our 40th Anniversary and how, from our point of view, 40 really is the new 20. We see our anniversary as a great time to recognize both AMD’s successes and our transition to a new focus on designing the next generation of CPUs and GPUs.
Our “ruby” anniversary is also an opportunity to have some fun and give back to the fans that have supported us over the decades through a series of contests. Our first contest closed in June and the exceptionally creative winning entries can be found on our Flickr and YouTube channels. When we challenged the community to develop creative ways to celebrate the anniversary, we knew you’d come through, but we never thought people would go this far! Well done everyone!
And now, onto contest number two!
This time, we’re giving away four HP Pavilion DV2z notebooks throughout August and September. For a chance to win, just follow us on Twitter (@AMD_Unprocessed) and starting today, a new question about general AMD trivia will be tweeted every other Monday. Eligible respondents* who reply via Direct Message with the correct answer will be automatically entered for a chance to win one of these feature laden laptops.
Not bad, eh? Check out the anniversary page for more details!
Good luck!
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40 is the New 20
Posted by Nigel Dessau in 10:36 PM
(13 votes, average: 4.69 out of 5)We’re gearing up for a yearlong celebration of AMD’s 40th anniversary – and we hope you’ll help us celebrate. Forty years ago this May, Jerry Sanders and the gang of seven set up shop in Sunnyvale, CA with $100,000.
Just ten years later, AMD was operating its own cutting-edge manufacturing facilities in Austin and entering the big leagues with a listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Over these forty years AMD has transformed from a second source supplier for IBM to an x86 fast-follower and, today, to a recognized innovation leader that has made an enduring, positive impact on IT.
Our anniversary Web page has a great timeline of AMD’s history of innovation, and I urge you to explore that.
But the best is yet to come.
By any measure, the AMD of 2009 is a very different company than the one that came to be forty years ago – and that’s a good thing. Like any wise 40 year-old, we’ve been exercising and reinvesting in ourselves. And while, yes, these are challenging economic times, AMD continues to drive innovation in the industry with new technologies and platforms that are designed for where the industry is heading – designed for how you use computing in your daily life:
- Like our Yukon platform for ultrathin laptops, which is helping to usher in a new era of computing;
- And our ATI Mobility RadeonTM HD 4000 series graphics processors that deliver a home theatre-quality HD multimedia experience on your HD monitor;
- And our most energy efficient AMD OpteronTM processor ever to hit the market – a processor that is an ideal cloud computing platform.
Now onto the fun stuff!
AMD has never been an orthodox business, and true to form we are not celebrating our 40th in a traditional way: instead of receiving presents we are giving them! Because we would not be turning 40 without you, our loyal customers – from the IT manager who goes against the grain by shaking up the server mix in a Fortune 500 company to the gaming enthusiast who knows the best experience is on a system powered by AMD chips and ATI graphics.
To “thank you” for your support over the years, today we are rolling-out a series of contests that we plan to run throughout the year, enabling our fans to connect in fun ways with us – and one another – not to mention a chance to win some AMD (and AMD-powered) products.
The first contest will call on the enthusiast community to use their creativity to deliver videos and photos of their AMD gear. I can’t wait to see what you come up with. Stop by the anniversary site regularly to see submissions and be a part of the action.
Maybe I’ll even submit my own video…
Note: Pat Moorhead, AMD’s VP of Advanced Marketing, has some quite passionate thoughts of his own about our 40th anniversary here.
Nigel Dessau is senior vice president and chief marketing officer at AMD. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links sites and no endorsement is implied.