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Nubius said:wonder how much this freakin PPU will wind up costing.
and by the sounds of it you're going to need to purchase a PPU chip AND the card seperately...sooo basically it'll be like "Oh you only got a PPU GX58 huh? That sucks...I've got the 2x900" and crap like that.
Yeah, i'm kinda fuzzy on this whole thing too. From all i've read this is what I think, "Ageia developed the Physx Engine (software SDK) and the Physx Processor (Technology blueprint for the hardware)." Ageia is a fabless semiconductor company. They don't make the chips. They out source that to a semiconductor foundry who fabricates the chips.
This is were i get fuzzy...
Will Ageia then sell those chips to a company like (BFG, XFX, Evga, sapphire...etc...) And then they make the cards and sell the completed PPU?
Or will Ageia take there chips and outsource to card makers?
I bet it's the first one. I know that they are planning on cards having GDDR3 in 128MB & 256MB flavors. Oh boy, I can see it now... The 512MB beast... oh wait... what's this? not only can you have SLI or CROSSFIRE - But now you can also run (DUAL PPU'S) in our nifty dual PPU solution.....
SLAP ME AND WAKE ME UP!!!!