[computer-go] Go hardware?

[Chrilly]

Developing a new sophisticated state of the art processor e.g. in 90 or even 
65nm technologicy is a very complicatetd and especially a very expensive 
project. This is complety off question for an application like a Go 
processor. One needs a few million (10**6) $ for such a project.
I am working currently at the Computer-Tomography departent of Siemens. 
Together with General Electrics the greatest supplier for 
Computer-Tomography. Developing special purpose ASICs for image processing 
is not discussed anymore. Its too expensive, too complicated and the 
development cycle is too slow. All the processing is done with FPGAs.
CT is a somewhat bigger market than computer Go.

Chrilly






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Fant" <chrisfant at gmail.com>
To: "computer-go" <computer-go at computer-go.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [computer-go] Go hardware?


> 8086 instruction set.  Anything less and you will have accidentally
> left something out that you need.
>
>
> On 3/10/07, compgo123 at aol.com <compgo123 at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  FGA has it's limitations on speed and size. Paralell has it's practical
>> limitations. The best approach is a Go playing processor. It doesn't 
>> exist
>> now, but I'm sure there will be one some day. To make the day coming just 
>> a
>> little earlier let's compile a list of what an instruction set and and 
>> the
>> I/O structure of such a Go playing processor should have.
>>
>>
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