Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:09:21 01/10/00
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On January 10, 2000 at 05:57:13, France Levesque wrote: >Hello group, > >Can somebody tell me how powerful the DB-Chip was alledged to be ?? > >Let's say a P-133 is the baseline, how many more times powerful would the >DB-chip be. > >It is surprising that Feng thinks he could build the chip for less than a >standards CPU, if he could, then everybody would be using it !! > >Thx This is hard to answer. In the Case of Crafty, a P5/133 would search at about 30K nodes per second. Hsu projected that a single chip ought to be able to search at _least_ 10x faster than an old DB chip, and probably more. Which would put the new single-chip machine at 30M nodes per second (or better, as that is probably conservative). However, computer chess is a 'small market'. It would be difficult to build and produce such a gadget when the target market might be only 1,000 units I suppose. Too bad about the match, although it was kind of expected. I knew he was trying to get a new one set up, but was surprised to discover that apparently, Kasparov's mouth is bigger than his heart. But then again, maybe not _that_ surprised..
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