For the first time, officially announcing the purchase of AGEIA, the company NVIDIA hinted that he was going to adapt to future developments AGEIA physics forces to accelerate their graphic products. AGEIA is understandable Representatives of the view that if there is demand production of specialized physical accelerators PhysX will be saved, and may even be new products for hardware acceleration physics. Well, a certain inertia in thinking is for the parties involved in mergers and acquisitions.

What is going to do with the legacy of AGEIA NVIDIA itself? Answer this question with colleagues tried Anandtech site, backed own reflections comments representatives NVIDIA. To begin with, the hardware platform AGEIA PhysX not enjoyed great success because of the need to adapt games by the owners of the small number of hardware. Of course, any game all the same under the optimized AGEIA PhysX, but rather superficially, to not risking too. Potential AGEIA PhysX not disclose fully, and this led to a vicious circle - the developers have not seen the benefits of the "physical" AGEIA technology.

PhysX hampered development platform and the fact that the producers have secured the support of videochipov Havok, which planned to accelerate physics forces graphics solutions. Only last autumn when Havok Intel came under control, the platform got a chance to get oriented to work with central processors. In doing so from NVIDIA are seeking to obtain a new ally in the development of a platform for accelerating forces videochipov physics, and thereby become an ally of AGEIA.

The most interesting thing is that members of the NVIDIA not going retreating from AMD in the optimization platform PhysX under programmatic work with videochipami. In other words, if AMD so desires, it can benefit from optimization software solutions PhysX under videochipy own. In this step by NVIDIA will be no charity. First, AMD and NVIDIA have a common competitor in the person of Intel obtaining access to technology Havok. Secondly, do PhysX platform to be truly popular, you can only meet the interests of the owners of a wide range of graphics cards.

In addition, NVIDIA makes it clear that the use of hardware design AGEIA in its future products to be fully collected. That is, integrated into videochipy or PhysX board accelerators, we do not see. The substantive value to NVIDIA represent AGEIA develop software that can adapt videochipy, but this will take some time. Modern NVIDIA chips can disclose benefits PhysX technology at a level that is present in the existing games. Specialized boosters physical effects in the present form inevitably disappear from the market.