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The Talent Search is the most prestigious pre-college science and technology competition in the United States and its contestants will soon fill the campuses of some of America’s finest universities. Each finalist received an Intel Core 2 Duo processor laptop and a scholarship of at least $5,000, with the winner receiving a scholarship for $100,000.

The Microbial Fuel Cells are probably my favorite, not bad for a 16 year old!

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The method of dual booting OS’s has been around for a while now, most noticeably/recently with OS X and Windows using Bootcamp on Intel Mac’s. Well looks like this marvelous tool/ability is making its way onto the iPhone thanks to the Dev Team and the recently published instructions form MuscleNerd.

Dual Boot an iPhone! The nerd in me just punched the air!

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Intel’s first next processors based on its next-generation ‘Nehalem’ architecture are due to appear a year from now, in Q4 2008. But the really interesting models will arrive during the first half of 2009: desktop and mobile CPUs with integrated graphics cores.

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Lynnfield is a quad-core part, again with HT to allow it to operate as eight cores, and with 8MB of L2. It too supports DDR 3, but only in a dual-channel configuration, the report indicates. The CPU’s on-board PCI Express controller allows it to link directly to a x16 graphics card, while its I/O chip, ‘Ibexpeak’, connects by DMI (Direct Media Interface).

The same architecture will be used by ‘Cleaksfield/Clarksfield’ - there’s some confusion over the name - the Nehalem-era mainstream quad-core part. However, this chip uses a 989-pin rPGA interconnect.

So too wil ‘Auburndale’, while is said to be a mobile chip, implying that Cleaksfield/Clarksfield is too. Auburndale is a dual-core product - HyperThreading makes it appear as a quad-core chip to the operating system - with 4MB of L2 and dual-channel DDR 3 support.

Like Cleaksfield/Clarksfield it will use PCI Express as its system bus to connect to a discrete GPU. But this will be optional: Auburndale will sport an integrated GPU of its own, along with a directly connected video memory buffer.

I can’t wait! Faster data rates between CPU and GPU are required for better performance so putting the GPU right next to the CPU should open a few doors.