May 1, 2009 marks the official 40-year anniversary of AMD\u2019s founding by Jerry Sanders and seven co-founders in 1969. As part of the year-long anniversary celebration, the company is holding a series of contests in the U.S. and Canada as a gesture of thanks to the dedicated customers. <\/p>\n
\u201cForty years in any industry is a major achievement, but doing so in the rapidly changing, competitive semiconductor business is an enduring testament to the dedication and talent of AMD employees and alumni,\u201d<\/em> said Dirk Meyer, AMD president and CEO. \u201cAs the world and technology markets have changed through the years, AMD has remained focused on enabling the next wave of applications that we expect to drive the industry. We mark our 40th year as a much different company; a company intensely focused on designing and developing new products and platforms that combine our unique graphics and microprocessor technologies to create compelling user experiences.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n The website for the contests can be found here<\/p>\n http:\/\/sites.amd.com\/us\/promo\/amd40\/Pages\/AMD40thAnniversary.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n In total they are giving away 80 prizes, so be sure to head to the above link and participate. The contests include a Video contest for which you can win a HD4890 and a photo contest for which you can win a new AMD Phenom\u2122 II X4 Black Edition processor<\/a> and an ASUS M4A78T-E motherboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 1, 2009 marks the official 40-year anniversary of AMD\u2019s founding by Jerry Sanders and seven co-founders in 1969. As part of the year-long anniversary celebration, the company is holding a series of contests...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[980,72,73,384,981,491,895,762],"class_list":["post-5932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-40th-anniversary","tag-amd","tag-ati","tag-contest","tag-hd4650","tag-hd4890","tag-phenom","tag-phenom-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}