Ageia

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageia 2009/09/30)

Ageia/(n.)/

解釋：Ageia, founded in 2002, was a fabless semiconductor company. Ageia invented PhysX – a Physics Processing Unit chip capable of performing 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.On February 4, 2008, Nvidia announced that it would acquire Ageia. On February 13, 2008, the buyout of Ageia was finalized.The PhysX engine is now known as Nvidia PhysX.

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中文翻譯：Ageia(Ageia)表示，成立於2002年，是一家無晶圓廠半導體公司。發明的Ageia PhysX物理-一個物理處理單元芯片能夠執行物理運算速度遠遠超過一般用途的CPU，他們同時也獲得了PhysX物理SDK（以前NovodeX SDK）中，大型圖書館的物理中間件遊戲製作。

Ageia公司指出，因為這是第一家開發硬件設計的卸載計算物理學的視頻遊戲從CPU到一個單獨的芯片。在此之前，解決方案，從ATI和Nvidia還沒有計劃也沒有公佈。 Ageia公司後不久實施的PhysX處理器，Nvidia和ATI發布了自己的物理實現。

在2008年2月4日，Nvidia公司宣布，將收購的Ageia。在2008年2月13日，該收購的Ageia公司的定稿。PhysX引擎現在被稱為NVIDIA PhysX。(Source：Google翻譯)