Author: James B. Shearer
Date: 21:36:39 05/16/99
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On May 14, 1999 at 09:52:14, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On May 14, 1999 at 01:38:11, Gregor Overney wrote:
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>>2) You still need to write the correct algorithms to make this chip work. And
>>those algorithms are pretty complex (see evaluation functions etc.)
>>
>
>But it has _already_ been done. All that is left is to use the "new" fab
>process to increase density and clock speed.. DB's chess chips only ran at
>20-24 megahertz. running that up to 16x faster seems quite easy with todays
>silicon capabilities as that would still be a modest < 400mhz processor.
This assumes:
1) Hsu's startup has the right to use the IBM deep blue code.
2) The IBM deep blue code (written for the big endian power chips) can be
trivially ported to the (little endian) Intel chips used in PCs.
I would doubt both of these assumptions.
James B. Shearer
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