Greg & All,
Looks like Deep Blue has got a job, bring back the chess matchs!!!!!!! Forget this national defense work give poor Gary another chance.
Here are a list of today interesting stories.
IBM's Deep Blue chess computer is getting a real job
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Copyright c 1998 Reuters News Service
SOMERS, N.Y. (February 4, 1998 00:31 a.m. EST nando.net) - IBM has gone from chess games to war games. The
computer company said Tuesday the successor to Deep Blue, the computer that defeated world chess champion Garry
Kasparov, will be used to check up on the health of the country's nuclear arsenal.
techserver.com
Tough times for Cyrix?
By Jim Davis
February 3, 1998, 7:05 p.m. PT
news analysis Despite the news of a patent
settlement with rival Intel, Cyrix's day in the sun
may be over: Its competitors are catching up in the
low-cost computer chip market, a business Cyrix
and Compaq Computer virtually invented a year
ago.
news.com
ntel to unveil "Slot 2" chip
design
By Michael Kanellos
February 3, 1998, 5:20 p.m. PT
Later this week, Intel will publicly reveal details of
its upcoming "Slot 2" Pentium II chip design for the
first time and also give an overview of the
450-MHz Pentium II "Deschutes" processor, two
product innovations that will likely be seen in
servers and workstations in the second half of the
year.
news.com
Digital Unveils Next Generation Of Alpha Chip
(02/03/98; 8:06 p.m. EST)
By Martin J. Garvey, InformationWeek
Digital Equipment Tuesday announced the next
generation Alpha chip it expects to ship by year's end.
The move confirms that the Alpha's roadmap is intact
despite an agreement with Intel and an acquisition by
Compaq.
The 21264 Alpha chip will start at a speed of 600
MHz and a thickness of 0.35 microns. However, by
the year 2000, the 21264 will be faster and thinner,
checking in at 1,000 MHz and 0.18 microns, says
Harry Copperman, senior VP and group executive of
Digital's products division. Copperman says the
21264 will be two to five times faster than any other
available technology and will continue to outperform
Intel chips right through Merced. He has engineers
working on chip design through the year 2004.
Copperman also believes Digital has an advantage
with backward compatibility and heterogeneous
system support. "Right now, we are selling customers
the right to an upgrade," says Copperman. Customers
who buy a NT, Unix, or OpenVMS system from
Digital will be able to snap in the 21264 when it's
available later this year. According to Copperman,
"Merced will carry the burden of maintaining
backward compatibility with 32-bit Intel technology
and Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC technology."
One analyst believes Alpha will retain a slim advantage
over Intel's Merced chip. "Since 1992, there's never
been a time when Alpha wasn't at the top or had a
commanding lead at the top," says Jonathan Eunice, an
analyst with IT advisory firm Illuminata in Nashua,
N.H. "Alpha will remain at the top through Merced."
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