Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 23:08:03 06/26/98
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>Posted by Keith Ian Price on June 26, 1998 at 21:40:50: >Hello, Roberto, >When I talked to Hsu about this at the end of April, he said that IBM had no >intention of selling the chess processors as a PC product, but that he was >negotiating with them for the rights to the chips (1997 version), so that he >could possibly market such a product. There's a lot of "ifs" there, though. I >asked him some hypotheticals, such as: If there were a market for 1 million of >these boards, at what price point do you think you could sell them? He answered >$200. With a market of 10,000 that would double to $400. I agree with you that >this would be a great thing to experiment with, and I believe even Vincent would >shell out $400 real quick to test it. Hsu also said that his short eval took >only one cycle, and his long eval took 8 cycles. Move generation took 4 cycles. >The long eval was necessary in only 20% of the cases. It's my believe if things are done in the right way (have some ideas) Hsu can easily sell 10,000 pieces, more likely 25,000 pieces if not 50,000. I do not sell competitive software myself but I surely will make an exception if Hsu manage to enter the market with his chip. Everybody should simply have it and the better sold the lower the end-user-price! - Ed - >kp
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