NVIDIA is now the owner of the physics platform that AGEIA was trying to promote with its discrete PhysX card. PhysX was only able to attract a minimal crowd, even though the card was over and again proven to work nicely. The lack of games that fully utilized the power of the add-in card was one of the major reasons for this, but NVIDIA will not fall into the same pit traps as AGEIA did. PhysX is going to be an open platform which any GPU manufacturer can implement, with NVIDIA’s consent of course. NVIDIA is aiming for a broad support for PhysX, maybe in an attempt to broadside Intel and its physics department previously known as Havok.
