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AMD 50th Anniversary VLAN Recap

gfroniewski
Staff
Staff
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Howdy Red Team!

We’re spending 2019 celebrating AMD’s 50th Anniversary, and we wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the fun we’ve already had this year as a community. From our 50th Anniversary VLAN last Saturday and the launch of the #AMD50 Stories contest to a special surprise you’ll find out about below, there are a lot of exciting things happening (and only more to come)!

AMD 50th Anniversary VLAN

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On May 4th, our AMD Stream Team joined forces with all of you to host a day of games, fun, and giveaways. We can’t thank you enough for coming out to join in on the celebration, and what a celebration it was! All in all, we had about 2,600 of you hanging out in Twitch and Discord playing some of your favorite games and vying for a chance to win some awesome prizes.

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We gave away four massive hardware bundles with 50th Anniversary products as well as copies of World War Z to our lucky winners, and we’re already looking forward to playing with you all again soon. In the meantime, our Stream Team is live every day, and they’re always happy to have you hanging out and chatting on our Twitch channel.

#AMD50 Stories

Another way we’ve been getting the community involved in the anniversary fun is through the #AMD50 Stories contest, where you have the opportunity to highlight some of your favorite AMD memories from over the years.

 

We’re still accepting entries until May 17th, but we wanted to take a moment to highlight some of our favorites so far:

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w00t Doc and his friends enjoying the launch of Athlon 64. Nothing beats a launch event where you walk away with prizes!

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Spending quality time with dad and hoping that everything went right with your first build!

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Giddily returning home with your brand-new video card ready to enter a new age of gaming.

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And, of course, meeting the love of your life and landing your dream job.

There are plenty more stories where that came from, and we want to hear yours too! Visit our posts on the Ryzen and Radeon Twitter pages to submit your favorite AMD memory for a chance to win some sweet 50th Anniversary hardware. We'll be selecting the winners randomly, and you can find the full rules here.

Last but not least... we're getting a fresh new look!

 

Many of you have been with us for years, and you've seen our style change over time. With it being AMD's 50th Anniversary, we're celebrating the past but also looking forward to the future. Without further ado, here's the new logo for all things Red Team:

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As we look to continually grow the Red Team and establish ourselves as the very best gaming community to be part of, we want to make sure our style grows with it. This new logo is modern and refreshing while still maintaining the sleek, angular look we've come to know and love from our past branding. 

 

We're so excited to start the next chapter on our community's journey, and this is just the beginning. Be on the lookout for changes that will take place on Twitch, our website, and right here on the forums. Over the next few months we'll be updating our online presence with our new look as well as offering you a variety of new content to explore. 

  

Thanks to each and every one of you for making the AMD Red Team the amazing community that it is. We look forward to making it even better, and we're thrilled to have you all be an integral part of that process.

16 Comments
whiskey-foxtrot
Forerunner

Here's to the next 50!

sonuchi
Adept III

Much hype. CAPS ARE NEEDED! HAPPY 50TH AND CAN'T WAIT TO SPORT THE NEW LOGO!

rqs-devine
Challenger

Thank you again for the AMD50 VLAN! Had a great time as always. Was super pumped to see the pic of my PC in the #AMD50 twitter feed photos! I am sooo happy to see the direction AMD has gone with CPUs can't wait to see Navi and Zen2! P.S. Like the new AMD redteam Logos.

neon
Miniboss

These are some awesomely good events and stories. Congratulations to AMD on their 50th anniversary, and let's hope that AMD's heritage of computing excellence and growth will continue together with Red Team. 

blazek
Volunteer Moderator
Volunteer Moderator

Congrats on the big 50!

realmadrooster
Adept II

AMD is a young 50 and the best is yet to come!

spinalfailed
Challenger

Thank you so much for all that you do for the community @AMD! Here's to 50 more great years of innovation and advancement!

gfroniewski
Staff
Staff

Absolutely, Todd. Thanks for being part of the community and congrats on that big win.  

gfroniewski
Staff
Staff

You've got that right, Matt! 

gfroniewski
Staff
Staff

That's definitely the idea.   I like to think I speak for our whole team when I say thank you for sharing your support and being part of our community. 

About the Author
I've always been involved in tech in some way; one of my first projects was developing/maintaining Linux 3DFX kernel code/drivers with Daryl Strauss. I also started the Linmodem project and contributed to various sections of the GNU/Linux kernel. Later focused more on overall data/network security and automation & application design. I am the author of "Deep Learning: A primer and beyond" a soon to be released 12 set course covering topics such as creating DL algorithms in Python, ANN/CNN/RNN and more. My history with AMD started with the humble K5 and I've owned EVERY desktop and server processor since then except the K6+/++, Phenom II and X2/3. Outside of the tech industry, I'm a serial entrepreneur, foodie and fitness nut (at least, the outdoors kind - like Spartan Races) and generally fascinated with life and everything it throws at me (especially if tech's involved). To wind down, I like to tinker with PC water loops, new tech toys and gadgets, and generally pushing my systems to the limits. --Wlad aka Whiskey-Foxtrot