X-bit labs

Started by: Harry | Date 02/06/08

Comments: 4 | Last Comment:  02/06/08

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1. The last Q&A is interesting... Doesn't it mean Nvidia is intending to take over the next generation console market by owning AEGIA. From this, nvidia can get much closer with the game developers... the next generation xbox, playstation or wii might lean towards nvidia instead of other GPU manufacturers for this reason... May be nvidia was afraid that intel could get into the console market very soon after having Havok bought-out...

we will decide what's best for us since nvidia has ur ass owned now

Goodbye AMD it was nice knowing you.

2. Regarding Reply #1. nVidia already makes the GPU for the PS3. AMD/ATi do not have the current financial resources for next-gen adventures. Their only hope of survival is milking their current technology (cf: 3870GX2 etc..) and hoping that the CPU business digs them out of the hole. The people that are bailing out AMD/ATi financially still see AMD as a CPU vendor.. and with the ~ $3 billion total good-will write-down of their ATi graphics-arm... for very good reason.

The big gorillas left in the GPU business by next year will be nVidia and Intel. And Intel's shining hope for taking on high-end graphics and GPGPU-style parallel-computing -- Larrabee-- is about 2 years out With the acquisition of Ageia ( several of whose employees are ex-nVidia folk ) nVidia has positioned itself excellently to take on both future gaming and future compute intensive industrial applications. Not much attention is paid on consumer sites to nVidia rapidly-growing business in desktop parallel-computing for research and engineering development using the CUDA toolset. The addition of a comprehensive physics library, courtesy of Ageia will be a very nice bonus.

Oh, by the way.. did you read the tea-leaves in the interview.. the current PPU is dead. Might make a great door-stop. In nVidia's world, Ageia physics will begin to be hardware/software integrated into all of their future GPUs... just another math-style library maybe with a few hardware tweaks for computational efficiency.

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