According to reports Intel will buy 100 per cent of Havok, a.k.a. Telekinesys, for about 79.2 million cash in a deal expected to close within five days. That's a good price for a company that produces the best Physics and Animation Simulation technology on the market. The big win for Intel is the staff at Havok, they are some of the best engineers in the business, that is a great addition to Intel and I'm sure it makes for exciting times ahead for Intel's 'Gaming' plans. This is a great purchase for Intel as they will be able to harness the power of Havok's Hydracore technology on their Dual and Quad core chips plus any new cores with CPU and GPU technology built in.
I hope this won't mean Havok technology losing it's cross platform flexibility as that is one of the key strengths. Not sure what this means for Ageia but to be honest they are not in the same league as Havok and technically Havok's PhysX is a Intel's cores!!!:-) I wonder what it will mean for HavokFX, that is the physics API that runs off the ATI and nVidia GPUs?
Will be interesting what happens over the next 12-24 months.
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According to reports Intel will buy 100 per cent of Havok, a.k.a. Telekinesys, for about 79.2 million cash in a deal expected to close within five days. That's a good price for a company that produces the best Physics and Animation Simulation technology on the market. The big win for Intel is the staff at Havok, they are some of the best engineers in the business, that is a great addition to Intel and I'm sure it makes for exciting times ahead for Intel's 'Gaming' plans. This is a great purchase for Intel as they will be able to harness the power of Havok's Hydracore technology on their Dual and Quad core chips plus any new cores with CPU and GPU technology built in. I hope this won't mean Havok technology losing it's cross platform flexibility as that is one of the key strengths. Not sure what this means for Ageia but to be honest they are not in the same league as Havok and technically Havok's PhysX is a Intel's cores!!! :-) I wonder what it will mean for HavokFX, that is the physics API that runs off the ATI and nVidia GPUs?
Will be interesting what happens over the next 12-24 months.