Check out the AMD Project going down at The Last HOPE this weekend. I’d type up an original piece but the official website does it so, so well:

This weekend, the Attendee Meta-Data (AMD) project will introduce a new location-aware social networking system to track and bring together hackers based on a huge array of matching interests. Conference goers will be given unprecedented ability to connect with new people, find the talks they’re most interested in attending, see what’s happening and where in real time, and experience and talk about the way RFID technology is changing the world.

Attendees receive RFID badges that uniquely identify and track them across the conference space. Location information is incredibly accurate—visitors’ exact locations and movements are monitored in real time, and used to drive revolutionary social networking features which completely change the conference experience.

The AMD social networking site lets visitors “tag” themselves based on a diverse set of interests. Old-school hackers, network security experts, cryptographers, political activists, law geeks, lockpickers, reverse engineers, bloggers, privacy advocates, and far more—visitors can label themselves with multiple interests, to become discoverable by fellow visitors from around the world with similar interests, in the same room or across the building. Attendees can then use email or text messages to “ping” the people they discover on the site—new contacts and old friends alike.

Essentially, think Facebook for hackers and attendees with tagging and geo-location via RFID. More to come.

Since Intel has released its Core 2 Duo line of processors, AMD has been out of the spot light, shunned to behind the center stage. Ever since, they have been scrambling to come up with something that can overpower the double core chips.

AMD has just released another chip for the Athlon 64 line: the X2 6000+. What’s suprising is that is has been released before what we were expecting. This dual-core CPU makes the jump to the world of 3GHz. It shows similarities to the previous chips in the line through features such as its 2MB level two chache. It carries a $599 price tag from Newegg.com (the go-to online computer store). This price is OEM, which doesn’t ship with a fan. But then again, if you are buying this high end chip, you probably already have your own high end fan! — Nik Gomez

AMD releases Athlon 64 X2 6000+ early [Electronista]

Asus currently takes up 1/3 of the world’s computer motherboard market, and they have been doing that by striving to expand the market themselves. At a press conference on Friday, Asus indicated that they would join forces with intel (not AMD), they even projected that their sales will increase by another 50% in 2007, if they manage to meet their own target, that is, they have to increase the overall sales of the world market by 20%. Crazy eh, one company on one island, a third of all the computer lying around. How are they doing to manage? This all and only has to do with a market an hour of flight away; the Taiwanese company is eyeing the booming internet cafe business in mainland China. Mobile phone subscribers can rise in terms of millions per month, you can imagine how companies can go crazy once they capture the Chinese taste. — Sam Chan

Asus and Intel [Pcpop]

The first 65 nanometer chips made by AMD have just arrived. The codename for these chips is Brisbane, and they are a welcome addition to the Athlon 64 line. Probably the most significant part of these new chips is a transition to 65nm from the previously held 90nm AMD CPUs. Like nearly every processor released nowadays, the Brisbane line is being labeled as capable of faster processing with lower power consumption. These new processors will be adopted by Acer, Dell, Founder, Gateway, HP, Lenovo, and Packard Bell beginning in quarter one of 2007. With the upcoming release of Windows Vista for the individual user, AMD claims this processor will be better equipped to handle the high-resolution 3D visual effects of Aero.

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