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Subject: Re: Deeper Blue on a single chip?

Author: Tony Petters

Date: 15:16:15 04/08/05

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On April 08, 2005 at 15:50:45, Walter Faxon wrote:

>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

Are you saying that a single CPU can be purchased that makes 30 millions calcs
per second is available for $ 236,000 ?

DB was clocked at 200 million calcs per second, so why would it be able to beat
Kasparov ?

Cordially



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