Author: Harald Faber
Date: 03:57:39 03/31/99
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On March 31, 1999 at 06:42:00, Dave Gomboc wrote: >>> The last paragraph states that he is forming an independent start-up >>>company to create a new chess chip for consumers , that would make it possible >>>for a desktop machine to defeat the world champ in a formal match by 2000 .... >> >>That confirms my assumption that Hsu has gone ***... >>A chess chip becoming WC in 2000....nonsense. > >The quote says "a desktop machine". It does not say "one chess chip". I'd >expect there to be many chess chips in one machine. Total hand-wave here: if >there were 16 chips per PCI card, and 4 PCI slots on a mainboard, that'd be 64 >chess processors in all. Now if a (Dual? Quad? More? :-) Pentium III can keep >them busy, I can readily imagine such a machine opening up a can of serious >whoop-ass. :) >Dave Gomboc Maybe I am wrong. But I don't believe Hsu nor anyone else being able to CREATE a chess chip (read above), build several of them on a special board maybe and write a software that a) handles these multiprocessors with appropriate tasks and b) becomes WC, all within one year. Just my opinion.
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