OBJECT RECORD / AIM-CHP-1997-001
Deep Blue custom chess chip, version 2
A surviving version 2 processor made Deep Blue’s bounded chess search inspectable as dedicated hardware.
MATERIAL RECORD
The object, not only the idea.
- Object type
- Deep Blue custom chess chip, version 2
- Collection
- Computer History Museum
- Accession number
- 102645415
- Institution status
- Not recorded · status checked
Physical measurements
Not recorded by the collection source
CURATORIAL READING
Why it is here
The Computer History Museum dates this custom chip to 1997, credits its design to Feng-Hsiung Hsu, and records 1.5 million transistors running at 24 MHz. IBM Research’s publication record adds system context: the 1997 Deep Blue used 480 custom chess chips, which supplied most of its computational power.
Evidence boundary
This is one chip, not the complete Deep Blue system, and specialised chess search is not general or human-like intelligence. The collection page records neither dimensions nor current display status, so both remain explicitly unrecorded here. Its image is copyrighted and is not reproduced.
06 / SPECIALISE COMPUTATION
Position in the guided path
A custom chip turns bounded chess search into dedicated hardware.
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Source trail
Computer History Museum ·
IBM Research ·