Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 01:26:05 01/08/00
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On January 08, 2000 at 00:26:11, Lin Harper wrote: > These dedicated chess computer processors run at > 20-36 mhz! Why can't they run at 500-600 mhz like the > softare programs? I'm sure there's a reason, and I'm > sure I'm not the only one wondering what it is. > Can someone put me out of my misery? :) Margin. 20 MHz washing-machine processors can probably had for under a buck each in volume. For portables, there is a second reason: power consumption. Same reason the Palm Pilot only has a 20 MHz processor, yet is wildly successful. Outside of this bulletin board, there are not a lot of people who would pay the $500 surchange to get a desktop processor in a chess computer, just so it could beat them 99.99% of the time instead of 99%. :) and run on batteries for one blitz game. :) I think there is little market for strong dedicated units these days; such a customer would just buy a desktop computer instead. Probably the reason there aren't even 50-100 MHz chess computers on the market. Ian
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