Nvidia to buy Ageia, improve gaming physics
NVIDIA recently announced that it intends to acquire AGEIA Technologies. The acquisition was announced after the signing of a definitive agreement. The deal might finally push hardware accelerated physics into the mainstream, and also yield a hybrid GPU-PPU add-in board.
AGEIA’s flagship product is the PhysX Physics Processing Unit (PPU). Sold as a new discrete add-in board, the PhysX PPU is a specialized physics processor.
There are a number of advantages of using a PPU. First off,… Continue Reading