- Ageia
Infobox Defunct company
company_name=AGEIA Technologies, Inc.
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fate= Acquired by NVIDIA Corporation
foundation=2002
defunct=February 13 ,2008
location=Santa Clara, California ,USA
key_people=Manju Hegde , CEO
industry=Semiconductors
products=Physics Processing Unit sPhysics engine s
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homepage= [http://www.ageia.com www.ageia.com]AGEIA, founded in 2002, was a
fabless semiconductor company . AGEIA inventedPhysX – aPhysics Processing Unit chip capable of performingphysics calculations much faster than general purpose CPUs; they also licensed out thePhysX SDK (formerly NovodeX SDK), a largephysics middleware library for game production.Ageia was noted as being the first company to develop hardware designed to offload calculation of
video game physics from the CPU to a separate chip. Prior to this, solutions fromATI andNVIDIA had not been planned nor announced. Soon after the Ageia implementation of theirPhysX processor, NVIDIA and ATI announced their own physics implementations.
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