A new company called Ageia has announced that they’ve created the world’s first chip dedicated to physics acceleration. Emblazoned with the clever name “PhysX,” the company hopes to release the chip ...

Game companies are licensing the graphics chipmaker's PhysX engine technology, which is designed to make game objects respond in a realistic way to physical events. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW and SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 22, 2006 - AGEIA TM Technologies, Inc., the pioneer in hardware-accelerated physics for games, today announced the availability of its PhysX TM processor, ...

LONDON — Fabless semiconductor company Ageia Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) has launched its PhysX chip, which it describes as a Physics Processing Unit (PPU), a device that is intended to ...

NVIDIA recently announced that it intends to acquire AGEIA Technologies. The acquisition was announced after the signing of a definitive agreement. The deal might finally push hardware accelerated ...

I look forward to the leaps in gaming technology that can be facilitated by a dedicated physics processing unit. I don't look forward to them being priced somewhere in the stratosphere like a good GPU ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - March 8, 2005 - Silicon Valley chip maker AGEIA TM Technologies, Inc., a company dedicated to delivering pervasive interactive reality to next-generation games, today at the ...

Researchers have built a small-scale computer that runs on thermal noise, the random electrical fluctuations that conventional chip designers spend billions trying to suppress. The device, called a ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--Game Developers Conference 06 is the first open skirmish between competing physics middleware companies and hardware manufacturers as they battle to get the attention of game ...