Author: Walter Faxon
Date: 12:50:45 04/08/05
Just looking around and found this (http://sccs.muldermedia.de/index.php?section=links&subsection=deepblue) record of a talk by Feng-hsiung Hsu at Hot Chips 10 (1998): "He thinks state of the art process can give 30 million chess positions per second in a single chip today. A small array of such chips plugged into a PC could beat Kasparov. In a few years (0.18u) a single chip could be as fast as the entire Deep Blue machine." Today MOSIS can supply custom 0.18u chips (http://www.mosis.org/Orders/Prices/price-list-domestic.html#ami12). I estimate that their undiscounted price for a single (large) 150mm^2 chip to be about $236,625. Hmmm... I think I'll wait and buy it used! -- Walter
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