THIS CONTEST IS NOW OVER. Congratulations to the winner who received a $500 Amazon gift card just in time to finish up his holiday shopping – 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
November 11th marked the one-year anniversary of Intel shipping its very first processors that incorporated our 45 nanometer manufacturing capability and reinvented transistor formula called high-k, metal gate. To the everyday consumer, this may not mean much. But think of the innovation involved in reinventing and then stuffing 100s of millions of tiny, tiny transistors inside a processor not much larger than a postage stamp, yet still delivering more performance for your photo, video and music activities in laptops that are now even smaller and faster yet improve battery life. In honor of this milestone, Intel is offering one lucky winner in the US or Canada US $500 www.amazon.com gift certificate to the person who guesses the exact number of transistors Intel has shipped worldwide from January 1, 2008 to October 31st, 2008. How do you play? Simple. Use the comments section of this blog to submit your answer. By doing so, you acknowledge the official rules posted at the end of this blog. Three more things. First, keep in mind that the number of transistors inside several of our products that take advantage of 45nm and reinvented transistors varies, but are typically in the 100s of millions. Intel will only review one submission per e-mail address, and only one number per submission, so don’t list a bunch or try to submit several using the same e-mail account. Second, please note that Intel can moderate its blog comments so it is likely that your submission post will be delayed up to 24 hours or more. We’ll do our best to post answers as immediately as possible, and Intel’s blog automatically ‘time-stamps’ each submission when its submitted, so the answers will be posted in order and if two individuals submit the winning answer the first person to post wins. Third, the contest begins now and ends on December 15th, 2008 at 12:01 p.m. Pacific Standard time. The winner will receive a $500 gift certificate for www.amazon.com and will be contacted using the e-mail submitted along with the answer post. This winner will have seven days (December 22, 12:01 p.m. PST) to acknowledge and accept the award. Official Contest Rules: (1) For posting at the blogs.intel.com site for the duration of the contest period. (2) For attachment as an addendum to winner’s affidavits Guess the Number of Intel’s Reinvented Transistors Contest Official Contest Rules 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. Intel Employees, officers and representatives (and members of their immediate families and those living in the same household of each) of Intel Corporation, their parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies and any company involved in the design, execution, production or judging of this promotion (“contest entities”) are ineligible Void where prohibited. How to Enter: Beginning December 1, 2008 at 12:01 p.m. PST contestants may submit via a comment to the blog post related to this Contest located at the Technology@Intel blog, their calculation of the exact number of transistors manufactured on Intel’s 45 nanometer process Intel Corporation shipped worldwide between January 1, 2008 through October 31, 2008. If no individual guesses the exact number, then the closest number to the exact answer (above or below it) will win. Length of Contest: The contest shall run from December 1st, 12:01 p.m. Pacific Standard Time to December 15th, 12:01 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. Number of submissions: Contestants can provide only one answer per the e-mail, Intel will have an exact time stamp for each submitted number in case there are multiple individuals who submit the same winning number. Please note: submissions are moderated, so there will be a delay from the time a comment is submitted to actually seeing it posted. Intel Corporation will post the submissions in the exact order as received based on the automatic time stamp generated. Requirements: Winner must meet the Eligibility requirements outlined above and have an active Internet connection and e-mail address to make a submission. This e-mail address will also be used to send the winning entry a gift certificate in the amount of $500 from www.amazon.com. Submitters can use their own computers and Internet connection or those offered by local libraries and community centers but having your own e-mail address is mandatory to submit and possibly win. Prizes, One Prize Winner: Only one prize will be awarded. One winner will receive an www.amazon.com gift certificate in the amount of US$500. The winner will be notified via the e-mail used to submit the winning answer. The Winner will be contacted and have 7 days to acknowledge notification via the same e-mail address. Intel will then send the winner an affidavit and release to sign, and winner will have 5 days to sign and return these forms to Intel. Upon return of these documents signed Intel will e-mail the winner the gift certificate. If after 7 days of the initial notification no acknowledgement has occurred, Intel will attempt to contact the second-closet submission and repeat the process until a winner is identified. Where two individuals submit the correct answer, the individual who posted their answer first, as determined by the automatic time stamp, will be awarded the Prize. Contest Judging: The winner will be determined by Intel Corporation by comparing all submissions in the noted timeframe and selecting the first submission that presents the exact number of transistors, or the closest number above or below the exact answer. General: If, for reasons beyond Intel Corporation’s control (including, but not limited to, tampering or computer virus infection), the contest is not capable of running as originally planned, Intel, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to cancel or modify the Contest, without liability. Intel will not be responsible for lost, late, misdirected, damaged, or illicit submissions, or for Internet, computer hardware and software, phone, and other technical errors, malfunctions, and delays. Entries are void if they contain typographical, other errors or multiple guesses. The winner will be required to complete an Affidavit of Eligibility and a Liability/Publicity Release (unless prohibited by law) and any required tax documents. The Affidavit, and Liability/Publicity Release must be returned within five (5) days of receipt of these documents. Non-compliance with any of these requirements may result in disqualification, in which case an alternate winner may be chosen. All entrants agree to comply fully with each provision in these Official Rules. Any person attempting to defraud or in any way tamper with this Contest and any person who does not comply with these Official Rules, will be ineligible for any prize(s) and may be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Right to Use Your Work and Information About You: Contestants understand and agree that their submission will be posted and publicly viewable on blogs.intel.com. 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25,000,000,000,000 transistors
37,500,000,000,000,000 transistors. Did I win???
67,000,000,000,000
820,000,000 transistors
one quintillion
7,500,000,000,000,000
1,774,487,100,000,000
4.92 x 10exp15
27,535,200,000,000,000 transistors.
Unfortunately Murphy’s Law says that at least two people will post after me, 1 with a count 1 less than mine and 1 with a count 1 more than mine, but hey I can be hopeful right?
36,500,000,000,000,000
25458369217448718
150,000,000,000,000
3,333,333,333
50 quadrillion transistors
150,000,000
720,000,000,000,000
750000000000000
It’s Over 9000!!!!
87,654,390,175
1,873,778,436,231
850,000,000,000,000,000,000
758,566,876,115,435,287 Transistors
28,500,000,000,000
850,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
I have 82,000,000,000,000,000
80,000,000,000
120 million
955,000,000,000
74,719,272,000,000 Transistors Shipped (Roughly)
900000000000000000
5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
214,000,000,000,000 transistors! Good luck all.
4,121,984,000,000
16,375,555,000,000,000,000 transistors
4,121,984,000,000,000
4,521,340,895,797 to be exact
81,387,500,000,000,000
389,218,500,003,482,859
10^16
64,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,001 transistors
5,000,000,000,000,000
1,152,000,000,000,000 transistors
546,658,125,487,248,000
1200000000000000
14,800,000,000,000,000
139,570,000,000,000
731 Million
500,000,000,000,000
100,000,000,000,000
96,000,000,000,000,000
770,770,770
200 trillion.
79,950,000,000,000 transistors
800,000,000,000
4,000,000,000,000
7,927,584,148,423,125
820,000,000,000,000
3,500,000,000,000,000 Transistors
84,500,000,000,000,000
970,000,000,000,000
MORE THAN 4.92 × 10exp15. Not exactly the number 4.92 × 10exp15!!! A little more than that!!! Maybe 4.9205 × 10exp15. That will be 4,920,500,000,000,000.
Huai Gong is really smart. I just calculated out. A little late. Hope I can win.
40000000000
23,370,000,000,000,000
1,030,030,070
165,452,500,300,000,000
I’m guessing 35,736,000,000,000,000
4,929,000,000,000,000
270,000,000,000,000 transistors
3,100,000,000,000,001
3,512,121,212,121,212,121
58,330,000,025,007,000
1 billion
Exactly 314,159,265,358,979
185,452,500,300,000,000
320000000000000000
186,472,334,795,301
256,512,024,048,096
90.000.000.000.000
356,874,128,675,309
9×10^18
678,643,778,043
4.4772 * 10^16 transistors
= 44,772,000,000,000,000
8,736,110,987,654,321
190,467,865,234,543,887
44,219,000,000
28,800,000,000,000,000,000,000
420,000,000,000,000,000
16,879,500,314,256
312,000,000,000,000
45,175,157,185,468,478,646,546,545,465,431
1,748,358,321,985,430
10^8
12,324,689,787,664,561
40,936,000,000,000,000
15,523,161,773,770
a googleplex
75,000,000,000,000
54,600,097,250,489
15,205,092,081,645,020
3,000,000,000,000,000
49,272,000,000,002,000
147,587,695,234,987,454
I guess 4 × 10EE17 or 400 quadrillion.
1 Transistor Bob.
12,789,537
5,000,000,000,000,000,000,001,000,000
150,000,000,000,000,000
45,000,000,000,000,000
59,849,828,159,758,438
11,200,000,000,000,000
410,000,000,000.
555,500,000,000,000
760,532,897,219,945,000
57,356,763,548,850,124
483 561 789 236 745 968
5*10^15
37.5 x 10^17
3,280,000,000,000,000,000 transistors
6,657,420,800,000
2,839,000,292,198,000
274,000,000,000,000,137
Im going to toss in,
5,536,787,030,666,098 High-k metal gate Transistors
1,127,560,427,840,390
77,777,777,777.45
16 quadrillion
7,846,347,867,383,600,000,000,000,000,000,000
3.02 * 10^23
More than AMD
999,999,999,999
550000000
6.02214179×10^23 (Avogadro’s Number)
49.4*10^19
4,500,000,000,000,000
70,000, 000,000,000
5.56 E15
49,200,000,000,000,001
2,678,000,000,000,000,000,000
45,500,000,000,000,000
or
45500000000000000
or
4.55^16
or
forty-five quadrillion and five hundred
400,000,000,000,000,001
31,980,000,000,000,000
41,000,000,000,000,000
7,650,000,000,000,000
972,000,100,000,000
1,823,901,359,343,796,162
64,211,251,680,234,123
58 trilion
65,600,000,000
47831044311998
2,128,734,325
125,300,233,110,230,550
173,468,514,238,712,374
35 million billion
20,275,500,698,321,756
889,218,500,003,482,859
582,000,000
582,000,000
8,450,000,000,000,000
731,000,000,000,000,000
Something like 1845595676888699 yea, thats it.
750,000,000,000,000,000,000
42,000,000,000,000,000
314,033,547
1,791,688,000,000,000,000,000
22,000,000,000,000,001 (22 quadrillion and 1)
102,500,000,000,000
Confidential, eh?
205,000,000,000,000
153,750,000,000,000
345,467,239,347,871
53,127,953,410,216,818
4.93 x 10exp15
19,236,752,130,842
53,954,023,612,807,345,901,001,784,561
497,234,533,670,342,197,092
36,750,000,459,000,273 transistors
640,000,000,000,000,000
If it is broken down by counting about 250,000 shipped E8400′s and E8500′s and about 100,000 Icore7 chips. (my estimate will still be high) but it isn’t taking into account any of the xenon shipments, It should be something around this.
832 500 000 000 000
565,000,000,000,000
5,120,500,000,000,050
2.5 × 10e17
205,845,124,569,534,343
12,900,108,675,309
7,400, 533,800,000
2.5×10^16
9,602,500,000,000,000.. ish
1.75×10^16
4,937,461,155,219,017 -transistors-
i would say 20,889,000,230,666,143
46,552,082,901,125,000
14,500,000,000,000,000,000
45,270,833,152,250,000
68,333,333,060,000,000
3E8
850,000,000,000,000
40,000,000,000,000,000
I’d say around
16,750,000,000,000 transistors
1050000000000 million
11ty billion!
Or perhaps 1,386,000,000,000,000 give or take a few zeros.
340,135,186,387,972
57,859,200,000,000,001 Transistors
18,062,400 Billion Transistors,
give or take 10,000
52,169,733,000,000,000
836 000 000 000 000
851,542,054,002,000,000
851,542,054,002,000,000
222,222,222,222,222,222,222,222
6,798,580,000 +/-10%
12,000,000,000,000,000
6.5 quintillion transistors
3*10^16
5,880,000,000,000,000,000
8.5 x 10^16
113,258,372,856,211,318
that’s one hundred thirteen quadrillion, two hundred fifty eight trillion, three hundred seventy two billion, eight hundred fifty six million, two hundred eleven thousand, three hundred eighteen.
this is coincidentally the same number in my bank account…when I am asleep…and dreaming.
703,881,000,050,000,013
1,105,700,000,000 Transisters
186,286,386,486,586,686
11,550,000,000,000,000
999,000,000,000,000,000,000
8.925×10^17
21,278,952,883,572,041
5,000,000,000,000,001
10,200,000,000,000,000
16,203,200,000,000,000 transistors!
291,000,000,000,000,000
1.3*10^9 Transistors
Because the Yorfield Penryn was 820million xistors (says HardOCP) per cpu, we’ll guess an average of 531522971.827599499542154243 xistors per chip shipped (because Intel also ships lots of smaller and older CPUs, and the outliers will change the average greatly). Guestimates from various market segments (microprocessors and old cpus, netbooks, laptops, desktops, servers) adjusting for chip counts, leads to the total guesstimate equation of
531,522,971.827599499542154243*(31,920,033+(3*4,792,318)+(3/4*(32,921,032)*2.15)+2,299,026*1.75*3), giving
59,239,318,241,393,361
65,000,000,000,000
758 546 985 135 479
475,000,000,000
So who won?
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.
“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!
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.
Congrats to the winner!
19,914,946,000,000,000 would have been my guess if I was eligible to enter