Ageia

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AGEIA Technologies, Inc.
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Fate merged with NVIDIA Corporation
Founded 2002
Defunct February 13, 2008
Location Santa Clara, California, USA
Industry Semiconductors
Products Physics Processing Units
Physics engines
Key people Manju Hegde, CEO

AGEIA, founded in 2002, was a fabless semiconductor company. AGEIA invented PhysX – a Physics Processing Unit chip capable of performing physics calculations much faster than general purpose CPUs; they also license out the PhysX SDK (formerly NovodeX SDK), a large physics 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 from ATI and NVIDIA had not been planned nor announced. Soon after the Ageia implementation of their PhysX processor, NVIDIA and ATI announced their own physics implementations.

On February 4, 2008, NVIDIA announced that it would acquire AGEIA.[1] On February 13, 2008, the buyout of AGEIA was finalized.[2]

The PhysX engine is now known as NVIDIA PhysX.

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  1. ^ Smalley, Tim. "Nvidia set to acquire Ageia" bit-tech.net, 4 February 2008. Accessed at http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/02/04/nvidia_set_to_acquire_ageia/1 on 5 February, 2008.
  2. ^ NVIDIA Completes Acquisition of AGEIA Technologies: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
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