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Subject: Re: What new chip will come in the next year?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:51:44 11/06/02

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On November 06, 2002 at 18:18:46, leonid wrote:

>Hi,
>
>What really new is expected to come in the nearest 10, or 12 months from now?
>What new chips, or some kind of new technology that will come to speed, or
>change something in computer world? How much new arrival will influence chess
>programming, after Your personal understanding?

We'll have the 64 bit chips then, both from Intel and AMD.
Probably, in one year, you will be able to get a reasonably priced workstation
with 64 bit addressing and native integer size.  I expect it will help the
bitboard programs a lot.  But I could be wrong about that.  Time will tell.



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