Author: Gregor Overney
Date: 22:38:11 05/13/99
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On May 13, 1999 at 09:10:05, Torstein Hall wrote: >I think a DB chip will kill all the Fritzes, Rebels, Nimzos, Juniors and Hiarcs >of this world. What is the point in developing, or buying, something that is a >lot weaker than the "Micro Monster" :-) > >But perhaps it could be made with a programming interface, letting other >programs use it for search, and add their own evaluation functions etc.? > >Torstein I am all ears if Feng-hsiung Hsu (or someone else) will succeed with this "DB chip". Nevertheless, I am not aware of this project. Is it a non-IBM project? Where did it get published that such a chip is in development? There are three good reasons why it is unlikely that this "DB chip will kill all the Fritzes, ....". 1) You just simple can't put DB on a single chip. 2) You still need to write the correct algorithms to make this chip work. And those algorithms are pretty complex (see evaluation functions etc.) 3) It is not the first time, people try to design super-fast search engines on a chip. Most of those efforts were gradually falling behind "real" CPUs. It's a nightmare and not very profitable. Just look at those countless chips that have been designed for image and speech recognition. A standard DSP with the right software does the trick much cheaper. For chess, a solid SMP 64-bit architecture and the right algorithms should always succeed. Gregor
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