[computer-go] Go hardware?

[compgo123 at aol.com]

After going through the networths of the Fortune 500, a few million dollars isn't really that much. Let's assume Warren Buffet is an avid Go player. He won't loose sleep over a few million dollars. Instead, he would loose sleep over the fact that just because a lousy few million dollars, an important milestone of human intellegence is not achieved.  
 
I think that a Go processor will have its special instructions and data structures. For example, the data length maybe 361 bits long. Or may be there two or three different data bus. There could be instructions that calculate stone group properties in one operation (instead of handreds or even thousands). There maybe instructions to handle alpha-beta search book keepings. Also instruction for pattern matchings, etc.
  
 
-----Original Message-----
From: chrisfant at gmail.com
To: computer-go at computer-go.org
Sent: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [computer-go] Go hardware?


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. 
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