Author: Harald Faber
Date: 05:27:52 03/31/99
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On March 31, 1999 at 07:28:47, 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. > >Hsu has already designed two chips, maybe he's got incremental adjustments for >the third in mind, or maybe he's just planning on using the second design. > >IBM has fabricated the chips before. Seeing as Hsu worked for IBM for many >years, it seems reasonable to me that they could work out some kind of >arrangement. > >As for "special boards", well, they've done this already too. I think they are >VME-bus, but it can't be that hard to use PCI instead. > >What's left? Parallel search? Not a problem. They already do that. I didn't mean that they are not able to do that. >As for becoming the world champion on a desktop machine, I'll agree with you >there, that sounds like hyperbole to me. And you're right, these things will >all take time. Maybe 2000 is doable, but probably not January 2000. :-) >Dave Gomboc That is the point. They may be able to develop such things but this won't be enough to become WCH next year.
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