nVidia正式宣布收购AGEIA
nVidia今天正式宣布收购AGEIA以下是双方CEO对收购案的评价
貌似都愉快
老黄这样评价
"The AGEIA team is world class, and is passionate about the same thing we are -- creating the most amazing and captivating game experiences. By combining the teams that created the world's most pervasive GPU and physics engine brands, we can now bring GeForce-accelerated PhysX to hundreds of millions of gamers around the world. The computer industry is moving towards a heterogeneous computing model, combining a flexible CPU and a massively parallel processor like the GPU to perform computationally intensive applications like real-time computer graphics. NVIDIA''s CUDA(TM) technology, which is rapidly becoming the most pervasive parallel programming environment in history, broadens the parallel processing world to hundreds of applications desperate for a giant step in computational performance. Applications such as physics, computer vision, and video/image processing are enabled through CUDA and heterogeneous computing."
Manju Hegde如是说
"NVIDIA is the perfect fit for us. They have the world''s best parallel computing technology and are the thought leaders in GPUs and gaming. We are united by a common culture based on a passion for innovating and driving the consumer experience."
反正都是些冠冕堂皇的话
呵呵
只是不知道nVidia出了多少米
估计是不少的
[img]smilies/face/face008.gif[/img] AGEIA 是什麼公司?[img]smilies/face/face012.gif[/img] 物理加速技术 补充:
此次收购将让NVIDIA拥有Cuda并行处理器系统的技术,PhysX技术目前已经应用在大多数电视游戏机中,例如Xbox360要和PS3以及任天堂.
NVIDIA首席执行官黄仁勋称NVIDIA的Cuda正迅速成为最普遍的并行编程环境,将提高计算性能和计算内容的广度.
2005年3月19日,美国无晶圆半导体厂商AGEIA于游戏开发者论坛(Game Developers Conference, GDC)上发表了全球第一款采用硬件加速的物理运算处理器 (PHYsics Processing Unit, PPU),同时将其命名为PhysX.AGEIA称它将会出现在下一代包括PC和游戏主机中.
物理卡主要是用来处理物理效果的专业卡,正如网卡是专门来负责网络传输,声卡是负责音频处理、音频输入输出,很明显,再贵的声卡也不能完成网卡的工作,再贵的网卡也不能担任声卡的角色,物理卡所标榜的就类似这种东西,专业级的物理运算处理卡,游戏中的物体翻滚,击落和运行的物理轨迹的处理,还有红旗飘扬的物理效果,物体撞击、反弹等等的物理效果都交由物理卡来处理,减轻CPU和 GPU的负担. 还好没买物理加速卡
看来以后都整合了 將來會不會一腳踢呢？[img]smilies/face/face018.gif[/img] [quote]原帖由 [i]GR[/i] 于 2008-2-5 22:28 发表 [url=http://bbs.gamesir.com/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=392510&ptid=16461][img]http://bbs.gamesir.com/images/common/back.gif[/img][/url]
將來會不會一腳踢呢？[img]smilies/face/face018.gif[/img] [/quote]
有这个可能性
主要还是得看市场需求度
目前应该还是作为一个全资子公司的形式
加强CUDA等等要花一点时间才会有效果
目前最简单的回收成本方法是利用AGEIA的物理引擎授权
之前Intel收购了Havok
Havok也是靠物理引擎授权赚钱
但Havok将来的方向是利用多核CPU来发挥优势
被nVidia收购的AGEIA未来则可能更偏重于独立或整合的类协处理器方案
两者针对的受众也可能有差异
慢慢看吧
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