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Nvidia Touts Physics, But Financial Trouble Ahead
August 12, 2008 – 6:40 PM in AMD/ATI
Santa Clara (CA) - Owners of a GeForce 8-series or higher graphics card can squeeze more eye candy out of their hardware as Nvidia has released a demo pack consisting of a full game, acceleration demos and Stanford's Folding@Home distributed computing client that showcase the physics and floating point horsepower of the company's graphics cards.
Ageia physics SDK now supports Vista 64-bit, Linux
October 3, 2006 – 2:16 PM
Ageia today announced version 2.6 of its "PhysX" software development kit (SDK), which integrates support for different Linux flavors as well as the 64-bit variant of the upcoming Windows Vista operating system.
BFG to launch Ageia physics cards on 9 May
May 5, 2006 – 12:35 AM
BFG today announced that its Ageia Physx based physics cards will be available in North America, Europe, Japan, Korea and Australia on 9 May.
ATI to showcase physics GPUs at Computex
May 31, 2006 – 5:32 PM
We hear that the red team has prepared a live demo of some fancy physics on Crossfire cards.
ATI to use third graphics card to run physics processing
June 6, 2006 – 11:13 AM
No more doubts about the impact of physics processing in the graphics industry. Following Ageia's announcement to offer a physics card last year, Nvidia and ATI have been somewhat quiet about the future of hardware-based physics processing. Now, the two firms appear to be trying to catch up quickly.

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The Scientists' Opinions on Gaming Physics
August 3, 2006 – 7:10 AM
Ageia recently released its PhysX card to the public, and it didn't take long for Nvidia and ATI to in turn present their own take on how to calculate physics. There are some, however, who say that none of these methods is especially good for the task. According to physics scientists, there are just no algorithms good enough to yield satisfying results.
Hardware-accelerated physics for laptops and noise-cancelling headsets at ShowStoppers
January 8, 2007 – 6:08 PM in Build Your Own
At the ShowStoppers after-CES-hours event, Aegia demonstrated that their PhysX card could work for laptops, provided that it sits inside of a special laptop dock.
Imagination's PowerVR chips promise faster graphics and even physics for future phone and PDAs
January 24, 2007 – 7:09 PM in Build Your Own
Imagination demonstrated their upcoming graphics chip in the PowerVR SGX family. Here it's running inside a regular PC, but the final version will be used in phones and PDAs.
Can Ageia's PhysX Card Bring Real-World Physics to Games?
June 19, 2006 – 6:08 AM
Ageia says its new physics processing device and engine will do nothing less than revolutionize PC gaming. We gauge just how well Ageia's PPU (physics processing unit) can handle flying debris and shrapnel in Ghost Recon Advanced War Fighter - which you can also see for yourself by downloading our video.