http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/ Engadget Comments for AMD tosses around the idea of acquiring Ageia http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/One Quad Core CPU
Dual graphics cards (1 physics, 1 graphics)

AMD Future System:
Two Quad Core CPUs
4 graphics cards (god only knows what they're each used for..)
1 physx card

See a diversion here? Simple and elegant... Frankenstein monster 2000w per second power consumption and they will probably have equal performance if current trends continue. Great for the consumer!!! ]]>Nov 22nd 2007 4:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/
and they didn't ruin Radeons. ATi was on their way down with R600 delays and that's why they approved the merge with AMD in hopes that they would get the edge over nVIDIA however that really hasn't materialized yet because of AMD still needing to fend off intel. For now it's ATi helping AMD because now they have a lot of new technologies from ATi, not just GPUs]]>Nov 21st 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/
As far as PPUs being useless- NOT TRUE. What about us gamers with older computers (like me, for example) who have maybe a Pentium 4 (Hyper Threading 3.2GHz in my case) who don't A) have the money, or B) the time to upgrade? A PPU would, in this case, be a wise choice for these newer physics intensive games. Now, if you have a 2/4 core processor, it might very well be a waste, but not for those who don't have those super fast CPUs.]]>Nov 21st 2007 10:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/
Seriously, Thanksgiving dinner for me is some Chinese news paper and apple cores pressed into the shape of a turkey.]]>Nov 21st 2007 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/
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(Then AMD yells that this is Sparta and kicks me down a random bottomless pit in the middle of nowhere.)]]>Nov 21st 2007 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/"While it's apparently still quite a ways beyond the realm of possibility"

Definition of "Possibility":
"Capability of existing or happening or being true"

This is rather inconsistent with the entire topic, which is outlining the fact that AMD has indeed considered it... thus making the acquisition not nearly as "Impossible" as that sentence would have us believe.]]>Nov 21st 2007 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/They already have Processors, ATI Graphics - Physics hardware would seem like the next step.]]>Nov 21st 2007 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/
Yet another idea / avenue by ATI / AMD pitched down the drain much like their acquisition of a Z-RAM license and the possibility of including it in their processor cache designs.]]>Nov 21st 2007 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 21st 2007 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 22nd 2007 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/
The problem is that PPU support is only being added to newer games, to increase the number of objects and effects kicking around. That then increases the workload on your GPU rendering all the objects still, and newer games are obviously more and more eye candy heavy, and less and less optimised for older systems.

They might break out, but for now it's only good for adding extra rubble.

AMD's mostly likely to consider buying them to add the PPU chip onto a new GFX board along side their GPU (or scrapping it and sticking to improving and pushing their GPU accelerated physics API's) simply to prevent Nvidia doing it first, and crushing them.]]>Nov 22nd 2007 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 22nd 2007 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/amd-tosses-around-the-idea-of-acquiring-ageia/Nov 23rd 2007 10:40AM