Intel Purchases Havok

Dr. Eggman writes "Gamasutra has the recent announcement; Intel has purchased Havok. 'As the firm noted, Havok 5 features enhancements to its core products, Havok Physics and Havok Animation, and introduces new features for Havok Behavior, a system for developing event-driven character behaviors in a game. Some of the games using Havok technology, particularly its Havok Physics solution, include BioShock, Stranglehold, Halo 2, Half Life 2, Oblivion, Crackdown, and MotorStorm - the company is also rapidly developing and marketing further tool products.' No word on what (if anything) Intel plans to do with its new acquisition."

Comments

Re:What Intel's gonna do

[DigiShaman]

Like the AGEIA PhysX chip? Doubtful. While putting it to native silicon provides speed and efficiency, it doesn't leave much room for change. No, I suspect Intel will have Havok start coding physic engines to take advantage of the multi-core processing. And why not? Quad Core CPUs are pretty much going unused desktops.

Intel already did on-die AI acceleration

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It didn't work out and they had to destroy their secret lab before it got further out of control.