AMD recently unveiled its latest line of multi-core processors targeted chiefly towards enterprise solutions, code named Barcelona. With this launch, AMD hopes to recover lost grounds from Intel in the multi-core processor war.
The Mumbai launch happened at the ITC Grand Central in Parel and I had an invitation! (surprised? :P). The invitation mentioned cocktails followed by dinner, which was the chief attraction. Reached there by 8:30 PM and hooked up with quite a few people from the industry and all of us were there for one reason: food and drinks.
The event organizers, although had other ideas. They kept us hungry and thirsty for an extra 90 minutes with presentations by top honchos from AMD, Oracle, Novell and Red Hat, all trying to demonstrate how their products/services are Barcelona-ready and optimized. Damn! they could have codenamed their processor Bar-se-mat-lena instead of Barcelona!
However, fate did have a twist in the form of a short and sweet standup performance by desi actor and comedian Ash Chandler!! wow! for 10 minutes he did a really breezy act and made me forget the rats that were running inside my tum tum. His take on Intel was hilarious. Check it out
And yea, the food was not that bad!
1 comment:
Good one Sukamal - 'Bar-se-mat-lena'...lol
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