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Win 1 Million Dollars with Intel

Voting for the fate of the Benjamins

By Dan Frincu, Hardware Editor

20th of March 2007, 10:50 GMT

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Intel Corporation has put out a bounty of 1 million dollars for a computer design. Responsible for the manufacturing part of the project are PC designers and manufacturers worldwide. This challenge was launched
last September under the name "The Intel Core Processor Challenge" and it had the main objective to make people think outside of the box.

George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars series has stated that he tried to look outside of the box when he came up with the ideas which later turned into now familiar characters like Yoda and Luke Skywalker. Thinking outside the box has nothing to do with a box of any shape or size, but more with the limitations our own minds have. These limitations are inoculated since childhood, and they get even more grounded and harder to overcome with age and they include things like, you known you can't do something because of certain laws, whether moral or physical, prevent that from happening.

That's what Intel has in plans when they launched the challenge, to make people look past the 'big, beige box" and come up with new innovative ideas regarding PC design. Of course there is a catch, namely that the computers being created have to be based on the Intel Core processor and Intel ViiV technology. At this contest came over 24 PC designs from companies worldwide, and ten semifinalists were chosen and starting from the 19th of March people can participate in the Intel Core Processor Challenge PC Design People's Choice Awards at www.intelchallenge.com and, by selection, one random voter will receive 100$.

Now thinking what one man was able to do by looking outside of the box, outside the boundaries set by one's mind, I have to say that these types of innovative competitions are the building blocks from which new technologies emerge and new construction designs are being created.

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Intel | Contest | PC | Design | 1 million dollars


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Comment #1 by: David Filkins on 18 Aug 2008, 02:50 GMT reply to this comment

i think like i should win the million dollars cause i want it, and the idea for intel will be like this dog running towards a burning building but then the dog sees a bag of chips and he runs towards it then you see the E string on a guitar snap the batteries fall on the floor, kirk hammet of metallica gets pissed, a random mexican man drinking mango juice, the pokemon logo comes up with the TM in the corner, my friend's god sister Kristy will be standing there as the bomb timer ticks down, a mirror shatters out of nowhere, with the words "the devil's advocate" in flames with the end screaming TRAP CARD! at the end of this theres a single screw driver and as it zooms in it says "intel"

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