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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