When we got back to the room, there was a cake waiting for one of the attendees…evidently Nick had spotted that it was Xavier’s birthday from his Facebook profile. See? There’s at least one valid use for social networking.

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After a short bus ride from our hotel, the13 invited bloggers showed up at the beautiful new AMD Lone Star Campus. Parts of it are still being finished, but the company began moving in late last year.

Mauricio Freitas of GeekZone (we met at Mobius 2007 in Amsterdam) standing in front of the entrance to “our” building

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I’ll be in Austin Wednesday for a meeting with AMD. I am looking forward to learning a bit more about their new Puma platform, and I have been asked if Gear Diary readers might have any questions for AMD - Puma related or otherwise.

It looks like anything and everything you might want to ask about (related to AMD products, of course) is fair game, so if you have something that you would like me to hit them with, leave a comment and let me know; I’ll make sure that they get your questions, and I’ll report back with whatever answers I can gather…assuming they don’t run me out of town for being cheeky.

Just to warm you up and hopefully give you a jumping point, here are some questions you might give reactions to…

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