Dannik Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Press release Looks like NVIDIA decided to bring on-die physics to their video cards in a slightly different manner than initially thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoQuarter Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Or as they have previously stated, touting their wares, in countless articles. ____ I wonder if vendors will still be selling PPUs in a year from now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buehgler_AS Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 My presumption would be that Nvidia really just wants to have the rights to the Ageia API, so that they can offer PPU features on existing hardware with a driver upgrade/release. I just can not imagine that the likes of Ageia could, over the long-term, provide a competitive piece of parallel computational silicon given the trend of GPUs to provide more general purpose computational ability. As such, I will be surprised if we see any explicit PPU silicon showing up in a GPU in the the near future. But who knows, I could be completely wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly2442 Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 It's funny how many of the things that were done by the CPU are now being offloaded to expansion cards. Graphics makes sense but physics? Eh, I guess. As long as I don't have to plug in two separate cards... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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