k. Nvidia has pretty much everything they need to take the next big step in PPU technology. Time, money, skilled engineers and years experience in chip designing.topal63 wrote:
I don't necessarily even think they will use the Ageia Physx PPU. I think they will glean off all the good ideas from the current design and re-design a new chip (IMO). It might not even be hardware/software compatible with the current Ageia Physx card implementation (but it might be). Considering there is no real reason to be backward compatible with older games or fading games (ones that people play less and less). I am thinking this is great step forward for PPU design and implementation. Ageia alone could not push this computing model and the technology, as far as Nvidia can - and hopefully will.
I was just disagreeing with you, only; really, on this minor point: that GPU's (which already can do physical simulations; FP operations) would be a good solution for physics calculations. Optimizing any single GPU, as they currently exist, to do more physical simulations would NOT be that good of a solution. Multi-core PPU/GPU = yes, a good solution. And, a separate PPU on a mainboard or on a card (like the currently existing Ageia Physx-card) = yes, a good solution. But, a single core optimized GPU doing physics and rendering = no not that good of a solution.
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