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Subject: Dedicated Hardware (i.e. Deep Blue) Where Did It All Go?

Author: Ed Trice

Date: 16:48:46 08/09/04

I am just wondering if all of the contemporary foundry processes to make
dedicated chess-only hardware, which would allow for move generation and
searching in the substrate, have now become relatively obsolete.

Has generic CPU performance increased so much that chess software, with its
inefficient harnesses of all of the CPU's power, will now outperform today's
equivalent of a Deep Blue?

Hasn't dedicated custom hardware technology evolved in parallel veins? Have
Gallium Arsenide processing techniques made any headway at all?

Or is the cost/benefit just outlandish?

Re: Dedicated Hardware (i.e. Deep Blue) Where Did It All Go? Robert Hyatt 20:46:19 08/09/04
Re: Dedicated Hardware (i.e. Deep Blue) Where Did It All Go? Rex 16:59:17 08/09/04
- Re: Dedicated Hardware (i.e. Deep Blue) Where Did It All Go? Ed Trice 17:06:17 08/09/04

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