And they will most likely not sit on them. AMD &amp; nVidia were working closely with Havok on HavokFX until Intel bought them out and cut them off. Most likely nVidia will start producing GPU/PPU hybrid chips or graphics cards that also have an onboard PPU supporting PhysX to make up for their loss with HavokFX.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 5, 2008 12:32 PM, Sir Brizz &lt;<a href="mailto:sir.brizz@gmail.com">sir.brizz@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
3DFX was a dead company when Nvidia bought them, so that time didn&#39;t<br>cause any loss of profitability. AGEIA is a currently profitable<br>company. Nvidia can&#39;t afford to just sit on them.<br><font color="#888888"><br>
Brizz<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>Eric Jackman wrote:<br>&gt; Just remember, when Nvidia purchased 3DFX it took about 2 years for<br>&gt; them to ship any new products that merged 3DFX and Nvidia technology.<br>
&gt;<br>&gt; That and I thought that Ryan hinted that Ageia wasn&#39;t the source of<br>&gt; the legal problem.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Lloyd Taylor wrote:<br>&gt;&gt; If AGEIA happened to be the 3rd party software that is holding up the<br>
&gt;&gt; linux release of UT3, this could be an interesting development. &nbsp;Even<br>&gt;&gt; if it isn&#39;t, this could precipitate some fun technology soon.<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; <a href="http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=515" target="_blank">http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=515</a><br>
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