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 2-15 ______________________________________ 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. 2-20 ______________________________________ 2-21 Secretary of the Senate 2-22 ______________________________________ 2-23 Member, Texas Senate