Today nVidia has announced that they will aquire Ageia Technologies Inc.
This in not a surprize, really. Ageia has really exciting technology but didn't manage to gain a considerable market share. Of course stroke a deal with Sony for Playstation 3, but appart from that not many PC stores are selling them successfuly. I think I don't have to say anything about nVidia. It is very likely that you have their product in your PC.
What is really exciting is that now we could expect to have one of two options:
- nVidia starts mass production of Physx cards with little or no modifications. This would hopefully bring the price down so we mere mortals can afford one
- new breed of cards will emerge - graphics + Physyx. This would take more time to develop but would have better penetraction to the market, e.g. high end graphics cards have physyx chip bundled
Let's wait and see what will happen. Anyway I think we (gamers) will benefit from this aquisition.
Don't waste time nVidia, bring on the goodies!
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