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Ageia is acquired? Who is the Silly Buyer?

helmutcheese said:
Ahh ?

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Actually I would have liked to see AMD snap up Agea (if they had an good business model for taking it forward), but even so would have liked to see it only when AMD were on the product/financial 'high ground' again.
 
Don't see why this would be a bad buy. It's no secret their hardware cards are going nowhere really, but that that doesn't mean they don't have great physics algorithms. If the buyer took it software, could be useful. Or perhaps a cheap on board (mobo) acceleration ? Anyway, you can see there might be possibilities.
 
I think that this was the aim all along, as Quixote said, they wern't moving an awful lot of their cards, it will take another company to integrate their PPU into their hardware, nVidia or AMD would have been ideal candidates but we'll see who it is.
 
helmutcheese said:
Helmutcheese, it took me a while but did you say your Tsuami dream BLK was windowed as in its not a mac/lynux? thats quite good lol.
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" TT Tsunami Dream BLK (Windowed) "


Dave thought I caleld it Windowed because I run Windows not A MAC or Linux.[/QUOTE]

i was thinking along the klines of widowed as in a play on words perhaps. Gues i went the wrong way lol.
 
Haha, now my Evil empire and plans are all coming together. This horde of PPU’s will be perfect to calculate the physics for my doomsday machine. No one can stop me now.
 
On a more serious note this could be bad for AMD

This is just theory but let’s just say Intel use Havok which they own to implant a PPU into their CPU’s, Nvidia buy Ageia and implant a PPU into their GPU to keep up with Intel. This now leaves AMD/ATI with both a CPU and GPU with no PPU.

Now that all major GPU's and CPU’s from Intel and Nvidia have PPU’s, games get massive PPU support.

Only theory mind you.

I know some of you say this is a Silly Buyer but Ageia is doing very well with there software API its got as many if not more game support then Havok right now.
 
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Agree with you Pottsey...it 'could' indeed make things even more challenging for AMD (if it is indeed nVidia or Intel) for exactly the reasons you state...hence why I kinda wanted to see it part of the AMDs 'empire' instead, but AMD probably would have had their hands full integrating people/tech/systems etc with the AMD/ATi move still, and not got the best out of it for a while.

Anyway if that challenge is insurmountable for them though....well...I dread the thought of an intel/nVidia monopoly on CPU/GPU/PPU.... (nothing against the hardware itself...just monopolies = bad for us)
 
I really hope it's not Intel. With them already owning Havok the future could be very bleak. Who will they buy next? AMD/ATI or Nvidia? Just think you could have a pc that is almost completely made up from Intel components. What a thought!!
 
waso_dude said:
Maybe its the people that write the folding software?

they are going to use them for folding ;)
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Wouldn't have the kind of floating point power that a GPU can offer I'm afraid. Makes no sense to support PPUs for high performance computing applications.

I suspect the company was bought by one of the major electronics firms, perhaps one looking to expand its workforce. The engineers will likely be absorbed into the existing product design team.
 
Could be intel wanting the massivly parallel copyrighted tech in agiea PPU design, no doubt intel will do a better job of it, but they cant right now if its copyrighted.......if that so called internal 2TB bandwidth in the PPU is true, could be useful on quad core processors accessing other cores and cache etc.
 
Silly buyer?

Are you aware of how well Ageias API is doing?

Depending on who has bought them, this could turn out to be very interesting for the API and maybe even the PPU card. :)
 
8igdave said:
COuld be samsung or somethign like that. Well they were rumoured to be buying amd a while ago but it appears to not be the case. But why would samsung want anythig to do with physics mmm.
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Ageia and Pottsey convinced samsung that their new range of tv's need physics chips in them so that Die Hard XX would look better :D lol
 
maybe its someone like asus? for me it would add more value to a motherboard to have a built in ppu, as i have never used the on-board sound they come with

also it would be a great way of getting a large installed user base of ppu users, so game creators would start using them, Im really surprised it has not been done before now

physx needs to sort out there drivers though, atm software physics and hardware accelerated physics are seperate, and the programmer has to code for each accordingly, and it seems most programmers cant be bothered to code for both, just using software

it needs to be if the game uses software physx acceleration, and the computer has a physx card then it will automatically use the ppu

there are quite a lot of games using the software physx sdk, but not hardware
 
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