1-1                          SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 791

        1-2           WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas takes pride in

        1-3     recognizing the staff of IBM-Austin for developing the computer chip

        1-4     that provided the processing power for the IBM Deep Blue computer

        1-5     that defeated Garry Kasparov in the 1997 chess rematch; and

        1-6           WHEREAS, The IBM-Austin staff played a major role in the

        1-7     recent rematch between Deep Blue and world champion chess player

        1-8     Garry Kasparov; the power behind the computer that unseated the

        1-9     champion is the Power2 Super Chip (P2SC), the new IBM chip that

       1-10     was developed in Austin; and

       1-11           WHEREAS, A powerful innovation, the P2SC is built from

       1-12     high-density CMOS 6S technology and is the result of the integration

       1-13     of the eight-chip Power2 technology into a single chip; the complex

       1-14     single-chip processor has a six instructions per cycle execution

       1-15     capability, a 160KB on-chip cache, and a total transistor count of

       1-16     15 million, about six million more than the next largest IBM

       1-17     microprocessor; and

       1-18           WHEREAS, Deep Blue's capabilities were boosted by 512 chess

       1-19     chips, designed by IBM to specifically solve chess problems, and

       1-20     the supercomputer's P2SC and customized chess accelerators make a

       1-21     remarkable combination of hardware, enabling Deep Blue to analyze

       1-22     more than 200 million chess positions per second; this processing

       1-23     speed is more than double the processing speed of the Deep Blue

        2-1     that competed against Mr. Kasparov in 1996; and

        2-2           WHEREAS, The P2SC used in the 1997 rematch is more than

        2-3     75 percent faster than the Power2 processor used in the original

        2-4     Deep Blue, and this year's Deep Blue has twice as many specialized

        2-5     chess accelerators as the 1996 model, further enhancing the

        2-6     computer's speed; now, therefore, be it

        2-7           RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas,

        2-8     75th Legislature, hereby commend the staff of IBM-Austin on its

        2-9     advanced chip technology and its development of the Power2 Super

       2-10     Chip used in the 1997 chess competition in which Deep Blue defeated

       2-11     Garry Kasparov; and, be it further

       2-12           RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for the

       2-13     IBM-Austin staff as an expression of esteem from the Texas Senate.

       2-14                                                              Barrientos

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       2-16                                          President of the Senate

       2-17                                       I hereby certify that the above

       2-18                                  Resolution was adopted by the Senate

       2-19                                  on May 21, 1997.

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       2-21                                          Secretary of the Senate

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       2-23                                            Member, Texas Senate