Nvidia buys Ageia

interesting....

Im suprised but happy.. Almost a year ago I read post by people from Intel and Nvidia, both saying that the physics can be just processed through the multiple cores, now they both have bought up the technologies..Very very interesting : )

I'm not suprised. I was waiting on nVidia or AMD to buy them after Intel bought Havok.

Gotta keep up with the Jones'

It's called a GPGPU - General Processing Graphics Processing Unit. It was what nVidia and ATi were working on with Havok when Intel bought Havok out and then cancelled their access to the Physics technology.

Physics arent the problem in Crysis.

It is if you try to blow up 5000 barrels, or you take out like a 300 trees crashing some jumbo jet in a mod.

what nvidia needs to do is incorporate a physics chip into all of their video cards. that way more people will get one, and bit by bit, as all cards being used have a physics processor, game developers can start to incorporate the use of that chip better because they won't have to worry about some people not having one.