Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:34:12 02/03/99
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On February 02, 1999 at 15:29:48, Terry Presgrove wrote: >So they have the technology in place to produce the 2 billion nps >but not the actual hardware manifested in a resurrected Deep Blue. >Reading between the lines that was my (limited) understanding also. > >TP Important point: no matter _how_ fast the SP goes, DB won't go any faster unless they (a) redesign the chips to reduce the clock cycle time or (b) make more chips. To go twice as fast, they need twice as many chips at present, as the SP isn't the 'limiting' factor... It is a combination of the basic machine speed _and_ the number/speed of the DB chess processors...
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