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nVidia has acquired Ageia Technologies
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Posted by Sun [Tuesday, 05 February 2008 - 03:10]
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Well, what more can be said? The news title is more than enough to get the official confirmation that Ageia was almost a complete failure and that the “salvation” of it’s name and of it’s so “revolutionary” technology could have been done only by a solution of this kind: being bought by a bigger brand, one that can afford to invest in and to actually produce something out of this business. And apparently that brand is nVidia.
All can one hope now is that nVidia will put this “new” technology to good use, in the interest of it’s clients. And to be honest I therefore smell some interesting moves (less exotic I hope – anyone 3 SLI?!) in the future of the video cards.
Here’s the official word:
PhysX on GeForce Will Bring Amazing Physics Dynamics to Millions of Gamers
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.
"The AGEIA team is world class, and
is passionate about the same thing we are—creating the most amazing and
captivating game experiences," stated Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO
of NVIDIA. "By combining the teams that created the world's most
pervasive GPU and physics engine brands, we can now bring
GeForce®-accelerated PhysX to hundreds of millions of gamers around the
world."
"NVIDIA is the perfect fit for us.
They have the world's best parallel computing technology and are the
thought leaders in GPUs and gaming. We are united by a common culture
based on a passion for innovating and driving the consumer experience,"
said Manju Hegde, co-founder and CEO of AGEIA.
Like graphics, physics processing is
made up of millions of parallel computations. The NVIDIA® GeForce®
8800GT GPU, with its 112 processors, can process parallel applications
up to two orders of magnitude faster than a dual or quad-core CPU.
"The computer industry is moving
towards a heterogeneous computing model, combining a flexible CPU and a
massively parallel processor like the GPU to perform computationally
intensive applications like real-time computer graphics," continued Mr.
Huang. "NVIDIA's CUDA™ technology, which is rapidly becoming the most
pervasive parallel programming environment in history, broadens the
parallel processing world to hundreds of applications desperate for a
giant step in computational performance. Applications such as physics,
computer vision, and video/image processing are enabled through CUDA
and heterogeneous computing."
AGEIA was founded in 2002 and has offices in Santa Clara, CA; St. Louis, MO; Zurich, Switzerland; and Beijing, China.
The acquisition remains subject to customary closing conditions.
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