Author: Don Dailey
Date: 07:50:38 06/27/98
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On June 27, 1998 at 02:08:03, Ed Schröder wrote: >>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 But my question would be, what are you actually getting? Are you getting a chip that does n ply searches with deep blue's evaluation function and little control over the search, extensions and evaluation function. Maybe it would make it possible to have a bunch of super strong programs but would they all be deep blue clones? That doesn't sound very exciting to me. - Don
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