Douglas Eadline wrote:
> Are you saying: At least 100,000 chess computers were sold for an > average of $6000 (US) for a total of $600,000,000 before the PC was > introduced. Almost a billion dollar chess computer market segment. > You are right, that is a hard fact to believe. [tongue firmly placed in cheek] What? You haven't seen the IDC report on the chess computer market? [humor mode off] Of course this could be just like the music markets here in the US where, once the data was being accurately tabulated, it was discovered that the most popular music wasn't quite what the exec's thought it was ... If there is a $0.6B chess market, I will admit surprise. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the "gamer" market were that large or larger. But not likely at $6,000USD/person. More likely under $1,000USD/person, with several million (10's or even hundreds?) When you think about that, and realize that this is where the Cell is targeted, you start to appreciate that the gamers will keep the cost of this chip down. This in turn will let us do some neat things with it, provided neat things can be done with it ... Reminds me of an old saturday night live skit. "It's a dessert topping!" "It's a floor wax!", "no, it's both!". In our case "It's a gamer console chip!", "It's an HPC chip!", "no, it's both!". Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 or +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
