A new company called Ageia has announced that they’ve created the world’s first chip dedicated to physics acceleration. Emblazoned with the clever name “PhysX,” the company hopes to release the chip ...

Game companies are licensing the graphics chipmaker's PhysX engine technology, which is designed to make game objects respond in a realistic way to physical events. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile ...

Here's a tip hardware manufacturers: when you're ready to send out a hot new gaming product that should get you tons of press coverage, don't ship it out the week before the biggest gaming show of the ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - March 8, 2005 - At the Game Developer Conference, AGEIA TM Technologies, Inc., a company dedicated to delivering pervasive interactive reality to next-generation games, today ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW and SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 22, 2006 - AGEIA TM Technologies, Inc., the pioneer in hardware-accelerated physics for games, today announced the availability of its PhysX TM processor, ...

The PhysX processor debuts as the first physics-processing unit (PPU) designed to power pervasive real-time physics in PC gaming. Providing true physics interaction on a grand scale, the processor ...

Ageia Technologies on Wednesday announced the availability of its PhysX processor — a dedicated “physics processing unit” (PPU) designed to work in conjunction with games that use Ageia’s physics ...

I look forward to the leaps in gaming technology that can be facilitated by a dedicated physics processing unit. I don't look forward to them being priced somewhere in the stratosphere like a good GPU ...

Researchers have built a small-scale computer that runs on thermal noise, the random electrical fluctuations that conventional chip designers spend billions trying to suppress. The device, called a ...