Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:46:19 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? ASIC manufacturing is alive and well. It's just not being directed at chess. There are still plenty of FAB shops around including the old MOSIS NSF facility.
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