Fabless semiconductor company Ageia has today announced PhysX, the world's first physics processing unit. The PhysX chip is a dedicated physics processing engine designed to coexist with the CPU ...

A new company called Ageia has announced that they’ve created the world’s first chip dedicated to physics acceleration ... and is marketing the processing unit both for use in add-on cards ...

Physics hardware manufacturer Ageia was on hand at E3 to give us a progress update on the new PhysX processing unit that it announced a couple of months ago at the Game Developers Conference.

It is akin to a conventional computer's central processing unit (CPU), which performs calculations ... of the weird properties of quantum physics. The bizarre rules of the quantum world enable ...

TeamXbox served up an interview with AGEIA Technologies about its Physics Processing Unit (PPU) which may or may not be in the Xbox 360: Let's get physical. What exactly is a PPU? Manju Hegde ...

Now this (spotted here) is a fascinating idea: a dedicated physics processing unit (PPU) to handle physics computation, just like the GPU handles graphics. I think pretty much anyone who's a gamer ...

Compared to modern GPUs the card sounds ancient, with 128MB of RAM, 130nm manufacturing, and a mere PCI interface, but it should be enough to deal with the current physics experiments being ...

and the results may enlighten us about the prospects for physics acceleration in custom hardware. Read on to get my take on Ageia's new physics processing unit." ...

— -- Nvidia announced three anticipated games will be making use of their hyped PhysX technology. Acquired by Ageia in 2008, PhysX formerly required a special Physics Processing Unit (PPU ...

The recently announced AGEIA PhysX Physics Processing Unit will be used to full effect in Rise of Legends, Big Huge Games' new real-time strategy game, and even if you don't have the addin card ...