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NVIDIA To Buy AGEIA

Posted by kdawson on from the it's-all-physics dept.

The two companies announced today that NVIDIA will acquire PhysX maker AGEIA; terms were not disclosed. The Daily Tech is one of the few covering the news to go much beyond the press release, mentioning that AMD considered buying AGEIA last November but passed, and that the combination positions NVIDIA to compete with Intel on a second front, beyond the GPU — as Intel purchased AGEIA competitor Havok last September. While NVIDIA talked about supporting the PhysX engine on their GPUs, it's not clear whether AGEIA's hardware-based physics accelerator will play any part in that. AMD declared GPU physics dead last year, but NVIDIA at least presumably begs to differ. The coverage over at PC Perspectives goes into more depth on what the acquisition portends for the future of physics, on the GPU or elsewhere.

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  1. off on a tangent by User+956 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Daily Tech is one of the few covering the news to go much beyond the press release, mentioning that AMD considered buying AGEIA last November but passed

    Well, that's because they were pondering a similar strategy to Microsoft, and were going to buy Yahoo.

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    1. Re:off on a tangent by ma1wrbu5tr · · Score: 4, Funny

      Here's a strange tangent... or two

      It's almost like some bizarre comic.

      Lets imagine that AMD and ATI teamed to to be the Super Friends.

      And Intel and nVidia are the Legion of Doom.

      Now, let the battle for the universe begin.


      At least that's how I feel when I read ./ers comments sometimes.
      We geeks tend to take ourselves entirely too seriously,

      Grammatical and spelling errors are bonuses.

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  2. The Future of Physics by calebt3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    the future of physics I am personally hoping that the future of physics leads to warp engines.
    1. Re:The Future of Physics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd be satisfied with socks that stay up by themselves.

    2. Re:The Future of Physics by bky1701 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'll be happy when someone starts to enforce the laws of physics. I mean, do you ever hear about someone in court because they violated the second law of thermal dynamics? Didn't think so. What are we going to do when people stop following them?? It will be lunacy, I tell you!

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  3. Re:Must bundle with GPU by Grave · · Score: 2, Funny

    And then Slashdotters will be able to say, "You kids with your integrated PPUs nowadays -- when I was your age, we had to calculate trajectories and drag coefficients by hand, and we liked it that way!" But I already say that...