Author: emerson tan
Date: 16:12:48 04/08/05
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On April 08, 2005 at 18:16:15, Tony Petters wrote: >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 ? Mr. Hsu doesnt have Deep Blues evaluation functions, IBM owns it, so the machine will be fast but dumb > >Cordially
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