Nvidia Acquires Ageia

[maroon1]

Please read those
DailyTech - Update: NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA
Confirmed: NVIDIA Acquires AGEIA
NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA Technologies

NVIDIA, the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AGEIA Technologies, Inc., the industry leader in gaming physics technology

I hope that Nvidia integrate Ageia's hardware directly into their upcoming GPUs

 

[Whirlwind]

Please read those
DailyTech - Update: NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA
Confirmed: NVIDIA Acquires AGEIA
NVIDIA TO ACQUIRE AGEIA TECHNOLOGIES



I hope that Nvidia integrate Ageia's hardware directly into their upcoming GPUs

Agreed

 

[Trotter]

Would definitely make sense, unless they bought them to keep them out of anyone else's hands.

 

[Wildside]

cool, but i dont see very many games that support AGEIA anyways.

 

[Metal Chaos]

cool, but i dont see very many games that support AGEIA anyways.

That'll probably change soon.

 

[DawnOfDoom]

yea if we incorporate it in GPU's it would seem more likely to encourage game designers that are in league with Nvidia would start to take advantage of this

 

[synergy]

From what I've heard AEGIA is going under anyway for lack of support from developers. No one uses the technology and therefore they are suffering.

I thought physics were more of a CPU resource than GPU resource...anyone know which it is?

 

[Trifid]

It is done with the CPU, but a dedicated unit will obviously be better. I hope they put it to good use and integrate it into GPU's or onto the motherboard.

 

[dario03]

Newer games will start to support more physics. The new star wars game is suppose to have some dynamic physics.

 

[fhasser]

Poor AMD. There's nothing for them to buy and they're struggling already... Gloomy, I don't want NVIDIA to be a monopoly. Same for Intel.