Nvidia has made official that it plans to acquire AGEIA Technologies, provider of the PhysX middleware and hardware accelerators with the same name, also known as PPUs.
Intel had already acquired Havok a short time ago, in a move to broaden it's assets in the field of physics processing for games.
Nvidia has now made a similar move, hoping to provide decent physics acceleration in their line of GPUs. That is planned to happen, in mass, by the time that DX11 sees the light of day. Microsoft has already announced that they will provide APIs for physics acceleration in that release, although no timeframe is yet certain for the release of the new version.
The press report is available at Nvidia's site.
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