Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 08:39:03 11/07/02
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On November 07, 2002 at 10:03:27, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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. For less than $6k you can buy the complete Itanium2 system, http://www.hp.com/workstations/products/itanium/zx2000/summary.html Yes, it will have "only" 1.5Mb of L3 cache. But, according to Intel (http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20020708comp.htm?iid=ipp_srvr_proc_itanium2+info_20020708comp&) "Itanium 2 processors will feature 3 MB and 1.5 MB of integrated L3 cache and 1 GHz and 900 MHz frequency speeds at prices ranging from $1,338 to $4,226." Still less than $7.3k. >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. Wrong. It has 64-bit registers and 64-bit linear address space -- so it's real 64-bit CPU by any definition. Thanks, Eugene >Best regards, >Vincent
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