Intel announced the Science Talent Search 2009 competition winners

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) announced on 10th of March the winners of the Intel Science Talent Search 2009 competition winners.
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Nation’s Top High School Innovators Met with President Obama to Discuss the Importance of Math and Science

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 9, 2009 – The nation’s top high school scientists met with President Barack Obama today to discuss their views on the role of math and science education in solving some of today’s most important global challenges as part of the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search, a program of Society for Science and the Public.

The 40 students, who were chosen from more than 1,600 applicants, are in Washington, D.C. to compete for more than a half a million dollars in scholarships and prizes, including a grand prize of $100,000. This year, the finalists represent 17 states and 35 schools.

“What’s cool is that President Obama is really on board in terms of supporting science education,” said Intel Science Talent Search finalist Aniruddha Deshmukh from Cupertino, Calif., “He said he’s supporting policies that would increase funding towards science and education programs on a very large scale in the U.S. That’s really key.”

“Last month, Intel announced a $7 billion multi-year investment in innovation. Today’s meeting between President Obama and our Intel Science Talent Science finalists demonstrates how important investment in education is in fueling innovation,” said Shelly Esque, Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs for the Intel Corporation. “These incredible young scientists are positive proof that investment in science and math education will play a critical role in stimulating the next generation of ideas and lifting our economy.”

The Intel Science Talent Search encourages students to tackle challenging scientific questions and develop the skills necessary to solve the problems of tomorrow. Over the past 67 years, Science Talent Search finalists have gone on to win seven Nobel Prizes, a Fields Medal, the National Medal of Science and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Society for Science & the Public (SSP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the public engagement in scientific research and education, has owned and administered the Science Talent Search since its inception in 1942.

Intel believes that students everywhere deserve to have the skills necessary to become the next generation of innovators. Intel’s commitment to education extends far beyond Intel Science Talent Search. Over the past decade alone, the company has invested more than $1 billion, and its employees have donated more than 2.5 million hours toward improving education in 50 countries. The Intel Science Talent Search is jointly funded by Intel Corporation and Intel Foundation.

Intel to help Serbia in enhancing computer literacy

BELGRADE, Serbia — Craig Barrett, Intel Corporation Chairman said that Intel will increase its efforts hand in hand with the Serbian govern in spurring economic development.
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Asus manufactures the fastest notebook on the planet

Cebit 2009 — The Asus W90 notebook, entitled by Asus “The Ultimate Multimedia Notebook”, achieved broking the 3dmark world record in notebook category, by achieving 20284 3dMark points.
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Apple rolls out the new Mac Pro

CUPERTINO, California — Apple announced today that the new Mac Pro, with a suggested, start price of $2.499 will hit the stores next week.
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Intel Celeron E1400 – Review and benchmarks

The infamous Intel seemingly always thinks about its less rich clients as well, likely that the Celeron family was designed for them. Each Celeron is way cheaper than the similar model from the higher class, in the Celerons’ case cheaper means that there’s a high loss of performance. Just like at the Intel Celeron E1400 case.

A few words about the Celeron E1400

It was manufactured with a 65 nanometer technology, can be fitted in (probably) any motherboard with Socket 775 and has 2 cores. It has 64bit support through its Intel® EM64T feature, as always, you have to have an operating system, drivers and programs to take full advantage of the 64bit architecture.
The processor works under maximum load at 2GHz, the front side bus speed is 800MHz and features Enhanced Intel Speedstep® Technology. This means that if the operating system supports this feature, then it can adjust the processor’s voltage when it’s underused in order to decrease the heat created by the processor. This feature is spiced with Intel® Thermal Monitor 2, for “just in case”.
As it’s a Celeron processor, it lacks Level 2 cache. The Celeron E1400 has only 512KB cache, working at 2GHz. This will be enough for any type of office application, but for games is surely not enough.

Intel® Celeron E1400 benchmarks

The system on which the benchmarks were done is the following:

• Motherboard: Asus P5N-EM HDMI
• Processor: Intel Celeron E1400, dual core
• RAM: Kingmax Dual-Channel 2GB DDRII
• Graphics card: Integrated GeForce 7100/nForce 630i

Running specific benchmarks, they popped the following results:

SuperPI 1M: 38 seconds
SuperPI 2M: 1 minute and 26 seconds
3DMark06 CPU: 1488
Cinebench10 Single CPU render: 1587
Cinebench10 Multi CPU render: 2872

Verdict on the Intel Celeron E1400

Even though it has 2 cores, this processor is less than recommended for gaming. It performs well with office applications and image manipulating, but when it comes to multimedia and high resolution video rendering, it struggles.

The data from within this article is purely informative