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

Author: Rex

Date: 16:59:17 08/09/04

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On August 09, 2004 at 19:48:46, Ed Trice wrote:

>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?

Cost/Benefit or Interest/Sponsership?

• Re: Dedicated Hardware (i.e. Deep Blue) Where Did It All Go? Ed Trice 17:06:17 08/09/04

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