PhysX PPU "Physical Processing Unit"

[MoDyna]

Here is another important game development. We have our CPU's, then GPU's and APU's and now we have PPU's. Here is a link to the story....

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21648


Also the Slashdot link:


http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/08/1827239

[Wairudo Enjin]

Very Cool!

[MoDyna]

Here is AnandTech's take on the new chip....


http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2376

[MoDyna]

Here is another article from "Tom's Hardware" on this issue.

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050308_214530.html

I agree that this will only take off big time if ATI and Nvidia incorporate the chips on to their boards.

[Sayntfuu]

Yeah this looks like it might be the shit. The ability to track 40,000 events at once is like 2 orders of magnitude better then we are getting now. The demo at GDC was awesome.

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