[computer-go] Go hardware?

[Chris Fant]

On 3/10/07, Chrilly <c.donninger at wavenet.at> wrote:
> 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.

Everyone knows that it was only a theoretical discussion.