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Ageia’s PhysX software is used in more than 140 game titles and is also used in game development for Sony’s Playstation3, Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Nintendo’s Wii and gaming PCs. Ageia’s physics software is used by more than 10,000 registered and active users of the PhysX Software Development Kit (SDK).
“The Ageia team is world-class and shares our passion for delivering the best and most compelling gaming experience,” says Jen-Hsun Huang, President and CEO of NVIDIA. “By combining the teams that developed the world’s most widely used GPUs and physics engines, we can now bring GeForce-accelerated PhysX to hundreds of millions of gamers around the world.” Manju Hedge, co-founder and CEO of Ageia, adds: “NVIDIA is a perfect fit for us. They offer the world’s best parallel-computing technology and lead in GPUs and gaming. We share a corporate culture based on a passion for innovation and optimum customer satisfaction.”
Physics calculations consist of millions of parallel calculations. With its 128 processors, NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800 GT GPU processes parallel applications up to twice as fast as a dual- or quad-core CPU. “The PC industry is moving towards a heterogeneous computing model in which a flexible CPU is combined with a parallel processor such as the GPU to process compute-intensive applications such as realtime computer graphics,” Huang continues. “NVIDIA’s CUDA technology, which is rapidly becoming the most widely used parallel-programming environment, extends the parallel-computing world to hundreds of applications that make a giant leap in computing performance. Applications such as physics, computer vision and video and image processing are enabled by CUDA and heterogeneous computing.”
Ageia was founded in 2002 and has offices in Santa Clara (California), St Louis (Missouri), Zurich (Switzerland) and Beijing (China). The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions.
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