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can someone please explain what is AGEIA PhysX thanks

NVIDIA has announced that it will acquire Ageia, the company behind the PhysX card. Source

Graphics technology company, Nvidia, has announced acquisition of Ageia Technologies, the company behind PhysX software, in order to bring GeForce-accelerated PhysX to gamers around the world. For those not in the know, PhysX is a chip that Ageia makes that makes killing and blowing up stuff...

Graphics firm Nvidia has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ageia Technologies, a privately held gaming physics technology developer based in California. Ageia is best known for its PhysX software, which is shipping or in development with more than 140 PhysX-based games on Sony's...

Source More Info from Official nVidia Site This way we will get to see amazing graphics capabilities from Games/Apps utilizing Physics from the Graphic Cards. The next Gen cards will be very good & will beat AMD/ATI cards. Way 2 go nVidia. :D

Is ageia physx is a card or a software? Please explain:) And can the software which come along with todays games like ageia software something..be used to tweak Nvidia card?

Last week Ryan "Icculus" Gordon had confirmed that the Linux client and server ports of Unreal Tournament 3 were caught up in a legal issue regarding some middleware used in this latest PC title from Epic Games. However, what is the middleware that Unreal Tournament 3 is caught up in? There...

Continued from Physics card to come from the Rejuvenated Mod, Sourabh ;) For the still uninitiated... PhysX is the proprietary realtime physics (ragdoll physics) engine middleware SDK developed by AGEIA. Middleware physics engines allow game developers to avoid writing their own code to handle...

Source XbitLabs reports AGEIA may have dual-PPU plans for its PhysX hardware physics accelerator card. The latest drivers reveal a revised hardware scene manager that allows multiple PhysX cards to operate in tandem to deliver greater physics acceleration capabilities. According to the article...