Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:09:16 12/17/99
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On December 15, 1999 at 19:56:30, Greg Lindahl wrote:
>On December 15, 1999 at 19:43:57, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>Anyway, I think your opinion of today's FPGAs is a little high. I just checked
>>the Xilinx page and they are advertising FPGAs that can replace 25,000 gate
>>ASICs. A Deep Blue chip has 150,000 gates. So, your project may be possible,
>>just not right now...
>
>Xilinx's current product line goes up to 1,000,000 gates. It's helpful to stay
>well below that maximum for cost reasons, of course, but 150k is well within
>reach. The FPGA clock rate today is above Deep Blue's ASIC clock rates then.
>
>BTW, I wasn't intending to get into a discussion about the proposal here. I was
>asking for volunteers.
Volunteers for what? I read about your project, and the arguments and counter
arguments, but I'm not completely sure I grasped what it is you want. You have a
very broad idea and admittedly know next to nothing about chess or computer
chess though hint at possible financing. The purpose of this project is to
generate publicity for you. As this is a rather unique project one can assume
years of research and development, and this only provided you have the most
competent of help. You want a top notch programmer(s) to do all this for your
benefit for free? I could understand wanting to discuss the feasability of the
idea (this is the perfect place as most of the top computer chess programmers
participate in this forum), something you would know nothing about having no
knowledge of computer chess, but otherwise I'm a bit confused. Serious, did I
misunderstand?
Albert Silver
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