AGEIA Q&A

by Maarten Goldstein, Jul 13, 2006 3:38am PDT

Related Topics – Hardware (PC only), PhysX

GDHardware is the latest site with a Q&A with Manju Hegde and Michael Steele of AGEIA, asking them about the PhysX physics acceleration chip that was released not too long ago. Topics include pricing, the need for a product like this and developer support.

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By: abrasion x Show Full Post

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the amount of circuitry to add even a 7.1 / 44khz 128 channel audio card on a chip is like 1000 transistors, unlike the 14.9 billion required for 3d gfx

as long as it's got decent capacitors or whatever the cunt it needs to keep electrical noise low, yes, i'd like my high quality audio card and gfx card AND physics card to be an "all in 1 gaming solution!" for like 350$ US - i'd buy one of those every 2 years.

Jul 13, 2006 4:57am PDT

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the amount of circuitry to add even a 7.1 / 44khz 128 channel audio card on a chip is like 1000 transisto... : abrasion
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  So your looking for eventually an entire 'plugin' gaming device?? Its called a console... Compute... : ShadowRam
  - You can not go around supporting individual components forever- I can assure you the developers do NOT M... : abrasion
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  But why would you need to upgrade your "high quality audio card" every time you buy a new video card? Doe... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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    I think that was his point. The audio portion is so simple that its cost is negligable. : billy_zelsnack
    - It still doesn't make one iota of sense, unless you're after the whole HDCP thing (transmitting audio ove... : GreatGooglyMoogly

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wow my bs alarm went off on that one. He's supposedly answering tough questions, but is spitting the same marketing bs we've been hearing all along. I want this to succed and would be first in line to buy one if I saw value in it, but the cold facts are that there's no good reason to buy one now.

Jul 13, 2006 6:53am PDT

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wow my bs alarm went off on that one. He's supposedly answering tough questions, but is spitting the sam... : pzilla
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  Agreed. It was almost too painful to read. "Buy it now cause it can only get better!" Ermmm, what? : ezanga
  - Indeed, hearing this marketing spin before the product was released was one thing, but now? As I imagi... : MaverickUK
- I agree with the 'not worth it yet'.. but I'd met some money we will eventually see the killer app every... : ShadowRam

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Like I've said before.. the Physx Chip is just a Parallel Multi-Core Co-Processor...

This type of processor can be used for ALL sorts of great stuff beyond Physics..
(ex. Encoding/Decoding)

I dont understand why people think this is a Graphical feature of some sort, and think this belongs on a video card?

The Array'd Multi-Core Co-Processor should be a seperate processor that should probably have a spot on the Motherboard, with a bus like to the CPU and the Memory...

But since MB's dont have this yet.. a PCI slot (or PCIe) is the best way to go.

Aegia should be trying to sell this chip/card as a Parallel processor that can do more than just physics....

Jul 13, 2006 4:32am PDT

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Like I've said before.. the Physx Chip is just a Parallel Multi-Core Co-Processor... This type of proc... : ShadowRam
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- This is an interesting point, I wonder if they'd considered this? : MaverickUK
- Same thing with DSP cards that audio people use. : Function Pointer
- I dont understand why people think this is a Graphical feature of some sort, and think this belongs on a : GreatGooglyMoogly

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Does anyone here actually own one of these things? Surely there's a rich Shacker who's an early adopter...

Jul 13, 2006 8:33am PDT

Does anyone here actually own one of these things? Surely there's a rich Shacker who's an early adopter..... : Schnapple

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it'll be built into video cards within 12 months, anyone who buys this has too much money

on that note, nvidia, where the shit is the soundstorm 3 on the next video card?

Jul 13, 2006 4:01am PDT

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it'll be built into video cards within 12 months, anyone who buys this has too much money on that note... : abrasion
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- Now you want to put sound cards on the Video Card?? WTF.. the GPU isn't a god damn CPU... : ShadowRam

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