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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 07:03:27 11/07/02

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On November 06, 2002 at 19:51:44, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

I assume you speak here about the intel McKinley itanium 2 which is $7300
a piece and 64 bits with a load of registers and 3 MB L3 cache.

It's a great chip.

The Hammer i do not see as a 64 bits chip in the true sense. It's having
a few 64 bits extensions like the P4 and the K7 already have. Just a few
more now i assume which with some luck are usable for computerchess this
time.

Best regards,
Vincent



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