please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message ageia technologies inc. industry semiconductors fate acquired by nvidia corporation founded 2002 defunct february 13 2008 headquarters santa clara california united states key people manju hegde ceo curtis matthew davis coo president & co founder products physics processing units physics engines website www.ageia.com ageia founded in 2002 was a fabless semiconductor company . ageia acquired novodex the company who created physx a physics processing unit chip capable of performing game physics calculations much faster than general purpose cpus ; they also licensed out the physx sdk formerly novodex sdk a large physics middleware library for game production . ageia was noted as being the first company to develop hardware designed to offload calculation of video game physics from the cpu to a separate chip . prior to this solutions from ati and nvidia had not been planned nor announced . soon after the ageia implementation of their physx processor nvidia and ati announced their own physics implementations . 1 september 2005 ageia acquires meqon a physics development company based in sweden . known for its forward looking features and multi platform support meqon earned international acclaim in the games world for its physics technology incorporated in 3d realms duke nukem forever and saber interactive s timeshift . 1 on february 4 2008 nvidia announced that it would acquire ageia . 2 on february 13 2008 the merger was finalized . 3 4 the physx engine is now known as nvidia physx . 5 references edit ageia acquires meqon research ab mountain view calif. september 1 2005 smalley tim . nvidia set to acquire ageia bit tech.net 4 february 2008 . accessed at http www.bit tech.net news 2008 02 04 nvidia set to acquire ageia 1 on 5 february 2008 . nvidia completes acquisition of ageia technologies nvidia santa clara ca february 13 2008 press release nvidia finalises ageia deal details future plans tim smalley 14th february 2008 bittech overview . physx . geforce . retrieved 2 april 2013 . external links edit ageia physx physics processing unit preview ageia in 2007 is this the year of the ppu bfg ageia physx card physx in graw 2 v t e nvidia geforce list of gpus fixed pixel pipeline s nv1 nv2 riva 128 riva tnt riva tnt2 fixed t & l and pixel pipelines geforce 256 2 vertex and fragment shaders geforce 3 4 fx 6 7 unified shaders tesla geforce 8 9 100 200 300 fermi geforce 400 500 unified shaders & memory kepler geforce 600 700 800 m maxwell geforce 700 800m 900 pascal geforce 10 volta to be announced software and technologies multimedia acceleration nvidia nvenc nvidia purevideo software cg cuda gelato nvidia gameworks optix physx nvidia system tools vdpau technologies nvidia 3d vision nvidia g sync nvidia optimus nvidia surround nvlink scalable link interface turbocache other products workstations and supercomputers nvidia quadro quadro plex nvidia tesla console components nv2a xbox rsx reality synthesizer playstation 3 nvidia shield shield portable shield tablet shield android tv geforce now socs goforce tegra cpus project denver computer chipsets nforce company key people jen hsun huang chris malachowsky curtis priem david kirk bill dally debora shoquist ranga jayaraman jonah m. alben acquisitions 3dfx interactive ageia uli icera mental images portalplayer exluna mediaq stexar this computer hardware article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this united states video game corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ageia & oldid 742726802 categories electronics companies of the united statesfabless semiconductor companiestechnology companies established in 2002companies disestablished in 2008companies based in santa clara californiadefunct companies based in california2002 establishments in californiacomputer hardware stubsunited states video game company stubshidden categories articles needing additional references from april 2013all articles needing additional referencesall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschespa olfran aisitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 5 october 2016 at 11 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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