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AMD + ATI + ...AGEIA?

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kumquatsrus

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Here's a link I found on the front page news of HardOCP:

http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/601680/amd-considers-buying-ageia/page1.html

It's fairly interesting in regards to what the near future may hold for Ageia. With the likely death of gpu physics http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multim...Now_Says_AMD_s_Developer_Relations_Chief.html and Intel buying out Havoc, it seems only natural that AMD, Nvidia, and others would be considering picking up Ageia if the price is right. Could hardware-accelerated physics have a future after all? Yes, methinks. The gauntlet is already laid down. The battle for physics supremacy in gaming is starting to rapidly gain momentum. Who will stand victorious when the dust settles? I hope it is the gamers that yearn for new gameplay experiences that will come from the potential that physx brings to the table. Of course, I could be completely wrong, lol. Make of it what you will, but to me, it sure is exciting to think about the possibilities.
 
So Intel bought Havok to stunt the progress of GPU physics, now AMD is considering buying Ageia to kill PPU physics? Is this really the CPU companies answer to innovation in physics? Buy them out and force everything back onto the CPU?

I can only hope Ageia sticks to hardware acceleration, otherwise we are back to square one and we have to wait till the CPU cash cow can squeeze a few more physics calculations each generation.
 
This is a question of money, if ageia profit more selling themselfs to amd they will, I have no doubts about that.
 
The Inquirer (yes I know) has a update on this, turns out he was taken out of context. Though I have to disagree with him on Ageia only existing to be bought out by another company, the same could be argued for all smaller companies.
 
If either companies wanted to sell physics cards they could but it would be better as is, to just integrate them into the video cards. I mean look it's getting retarded with 4 pci-e slots already on mobos anyways. Physics has done what in the past few years or right absolutely nothing. Pay couple hundred bucks to play what UT 2003 and sone demos to see balls roll around a room and a water tower crash. woooo! good investment. So more power too these companies they're making more getting bought out than sitting around doing nothing.
 
I wonder how hard it would be for AMD to package a ppu somewhere in thier spider (or its successor's) platform. It kind of fits in with the angle AMD is wokring by offering something intel can't currently (like the tri-core CPU's.) They have tried like hell to beat intel striaght up on performance but it may be a while before they can. i imagine it could push AMD over the top for gaming enthusiasts at least.
 
I hope AMD doesnt spend more than one Mexican Peso for the chip.;)
 
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