Ageia's PhysX processor finally hits the market

Check out the article at Hothardware for a more detailed review of BFG's, and I believe the industries first gaming PPU (physics processing unit). Designed to offload (funnily enough) physics calculations from the main CPUs similar to how 3D graphics processing was moved away from the CPU back in the days of 3dfx. Look for games and consoles to start taking advantage of these chips and the associated APIs (the PPUs function can be software emulated I believe? but at much reduced performance - need to check that out) over the next 6 to 12 months. This has potential to change how we interact with gaming environments, and how they react to us :)

Posted by 42 [PC Gaming] ( May 09, 2006 09:31 PM ) Permalink