Skeptics who said physics acceleration would never make it anywhere may want to reconsider, following the latest news from Ageia, makers of the PhysX engine. Gaming hardware giant Nvidia announced on Tuesday that it would be buying up the entire company, an acquisition that will put graphics and physics accelerators for next-gen games under one roof, and possibly on one chip.
“By combining the teams that created the world’s most pervasive GPU and physics engine brands, we can now bring GeForce-accelerated PhysX to hundreds of millions of gamers around the world,” said Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, in a statement.
