SAN FRANCISCO--On the surface, it seemed odd. But Advanced Micro Devices and the San Francisco Giants know their audiences. The major league baseball club knows many of its local fans are techies, and AMD knows that too.
The two partnered on a project Sunday (Sept. 9, 2012) to
let fans learn about how to build PCs just before a game between the Giants and their rivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers.
There were give-aways (Giants jerseys, microprocessors and AMD-powered computers), food and beverages, and, of course, lots of tech talk and demos.
AMD expected several hundred people and appeared to get that many over the course of two hours. And while the event plays to the emerging "maker/hacker" spirit across the country, it was clear that most of the attendees were young adults rather than high school or college students.
Below is one of the highlights of the event, former AMD Corporate Fellow
Patrick Moorhead (now
consulting and blogging) getting down and dirty with a motherboard and showing the crowd how easy it is these days to pull together a PC. Subsequent pages offer some images from the afternoon.
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