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Subject: Re: FPGAs playing chess--an expert opinion

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 11:44:21 12/16/99

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On December 16, 1999 at 14:02:42, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:

>Unfortunately, you asked him the wrong question. The FPGAs were not intended to
>replace the PowerPC chips used in DB, they were to replace the custom chips that
>did chess search and evaluation. You could ask your friend if he thought that
>today's FPGAs could replace a moderately complex ASIC of three years ago.

I actually gave him the specifics of the Deep Blue chips, so he knew exactly
what the question was. Realize that the DB chips are similar to general-purpose
processors in terms of logic. I'm sure that by "modern processor" he means
anything made within the last decade (or so).

-Tom

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