OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19279/NVidia_Purchases_Gaming_Physics_Processor_Maker_PhysX Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:36:15 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Makes Sense http://osnews.com/thread?299579 http://osnews.com/thread?299579 Nvidia probably felt they had to buy them after Intel grabbed Havok, who had been working with Nvidia on their planned GPU based physics.

That's quite a bit of consolidation in the gaming physics area now. Ageia had previously bought Meqon (being used by 3drealms on DNF (heh)).

It all leaves AMD/ATI a bit out in the cold. I can't think of any other big physics companies they could buy. If Intel finally gets into the discrete GFX arena that's more bad news for AMD/ATI. Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MamiyaOtaru) Comments RE: Makes Sense http://osnews.com/thread?299592 http://osnews.com/thread?299592
If Intel finally gets into the discrete GFX arena that's more bad news for AMD/ATI.


And it hopefully means more good news for us. Intel have always been very Open Source friendly. If they make a discrete GFX card that rivals anything from ATI or nVidia, I am so there.

High performance 3D graphics that work on any platform? *drools* Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (evangs) Comments RE[2]: Makes Sense http://osnews.com/thread?299601 http://osnews.com/thread?299601 I wouldn't jump to this conclusion. Don't forget that Intel is just a company and if competition gets bad and Intel monopolizes the thing they will turn their backs on OSS. Don't forget that all they want is profit.

Besides, AMD has been doing a good job with the ATI Linux drivers lately (nothing spectacular, but they fixed more stuff in 2 releases than ATI in 2 years). Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Almindor) Comments