NVIDIA To Acquire AGEIA

Wed 2008-02-06 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

There’s some new activity in the physics sector! First Intel bought Havok back in July and now NVIDIA is acquiring AGEIA Technologies, makers of the PhysX Physics Processing Unit.

Here’s what they had to say:

“SANTA CLARA, CA — FEBRUARY 4, 2008—NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), 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. AGEIA's PhysX software is widely adopted with more than 140 PhysX-based games shipping or in development on Sony Playstation3, Microsoft XBOX 360, Nintendo Wii and Gaming PCs. AGEIA physics software is pervasive with over 10,000 registered and active users of the PhysX SDK.”

I think it is fair to assume that NVIDIA is planning a direct competitor to Intel’s upcoming Larrabee GPGPU. It should be interesting!

Click here to read the press release.
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