View Full Version : Intel contest - Transistor count
Charles Wirth
12-04-2008, 01:26 PM
The second merely asks people to guess the number of reinvented transistors Intel has shipped since the beginning of the year. These would be our 45 nanometer chips with our Hafnium-based, high-k metal gate transistor formula. It’s a gigantic number and the closest guess wins $500 Amazon gift certificate good for anything, including Intel-based laptops, netbooks, PCs, et al. People can post their guesses at http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2008/12/contest_guess_intel_45nm_trans.php.
kylepaddock
12-04-2008, 03:43 PM
entered!!
Frodin
12-04-2008, 04:44 PM
Eligibility: No purchase necessary to win. This contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada, excluding Quebec, who are 18 years of age or older.
Who would have thought!:(
slugbug
12-04-2008, 10:19 PM
excluding Quebec
I guess that means I'm out :(
unrlmth
12-04-2008, 10:41 PM
410m X 100M is what I came up with 5 mins of google. . . I wonder how close that is. . .
Warboy
12-05-2008, 02:22 AM
I guessed 37.5 x 10^17
Movieman
12-05-2008, 02:27 AM
I'd do a Carl Sagan guess:
"Billions and Billions":D
sno.lcn
12-05-2008, 05:07 AM
And entered with a completely random guess.
miahallen
12-05-2008, 05:42 PM
Me too!
I bet folk in the UK cant enter :(
miahallen
12-20-2008, 06:25 AM
The contest ended on the 15th and the winner only has 7 days to accept the prize...but then still have not yet announced the winner...this is BS!
kylepaddock
12-20-2008, 08:08 AM
The contest ended on the 15th and the winner only has 7 days to accept the prize...but then still have not yet announced the winner...this is BS!
YES :shrug:
Martijn
12-20-2008, 08:16 AM
YES :shrug:
Maybe they're still counting :ROTF:
slugbug
12-20-2008, 11:50 AM
Same deal with the Ubisoft contest. That contest has been going on for 20 days now and still no winners posted.
Warboy
12-20-2008, 01:05 PM
Maybe they're still counting :ROTF:
37.5 x 10^17 must be a big number to them. :rofl:
But they posted this..
Dec 19 | Esther Andrews said:
This contest ended on December 15 at 12:01pm PST. No more entries were accepted after that time. We are still in the process of confirming the eligibility of the winner. We will announce the winner shortly.
Dec 20 | Jeremiah Allen said:
“This winner will have seven days (December 22, 12:01 p.m. PST) to acknowledge and accept the award.”
So since you have not yet announced the winner, I guess that doesn’t leave them much time to accept the prize when you do announce it…common, tell us who is closest already!
miahallen
12-20-2008, 03:20 PM
After posting to her blog, I got an auto-gen e-mail:
I'm on vacation Dec 18- Jan 4 and will only check email sporadically. Please expect a delayed response and have a great holiday!
Planet
12-20-2008, 06:38 PM
Whoes the ugly guy in between the two champs in your av?
miahallen
12-21-2008, 12:15 AM
Whoes the ugly guy in between the two champs in your av?
Yeah, that dude's been showing up everywhere huh? :p:
miahallen
01-05-2009, 11:10 PM
After posting to her blog, I got an auto-gen e-mail:
Congratulations to the unofficial winner of this contest, who will receive a $500 Amazon gift card - Fenwick Jeffrey of New Brunswick, Canada - with his entry of 20,275,500,698,321,756, which came the closest to the correct answer of 19,914,946,000,000,000.
Darn, I was off by about 20x with my guess of 400 quadrillion :p:
kylepaddock
01-07-2009, 06:13 PM
Wowwwwwwwwww
Hmm, I was wrong as I calculated about 2x of the right amount. :D
Gratz to the winner.