Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:10:21 02/25/02
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On February 25, 2002 at 13:01:15, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 25, 2002 at 10:35:00, Slater Wold wrote: > >>I was recently in contact with Hsu, where I asked him if there was anyway that >>he would either a.) sell the technology in DB or b.) donate this information to >>someone (Hyatt comes to mind) who would put it to use and keep it safe from >>being commercial use. >> >>Basically he told me he only bought the rights to rematch Kaspy (who refused). >>And to keep IBM off his back, if he decided to make a Shogi engine. Period. No >>other reasons. He will never sell/commercialize/donate/share his information. >>Ever. >> >>What a terrible, terrible dissappointment. > >The chip is patented. At some point, the patent will expire. The chip is only _part_ of the project remember. DB had a big software component to drive things (the two-level parallel search, for example) plus all the evaluation weights (these were "soft" values controlled by the software part of the engine) and so forth. Designing the chip would not be the hard part of the project, if it was started over from scratch.
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