Intel has announced that it has signed an agreement to fully acquire Havok and make it a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel. Havok is one of the leading industry providers of interactive software, such as in-game physics in games, and will become a key player in Intel’s new found love for the graphics industry. Intel says that Havok will continue to operate as it did before the acquisition and that it will keep developing products offered across numerous platforms. Both Intel and Havok representatives have expressed their glad feelings and they hope this will make Havok an even stronger company, which Intel then of course can make even more use of.
Whether this will be the end of AMD/ATI’s and NVIDIA’s GPU physics projects remains to be seen, but since we haven’t actually seen anything useful come out of these projects so far, maybe it wouldn’t be such a great loss after all?
