Ageia

Fabless semiconductor company Ageia Technologies, Inc.IndustrySemiconductorsFounded2002DefunctFebruary 13, 2008FateAcquired by and merged into Nvidia CorporationHeadquartersSanta Clara, California, United StatesKey peopleManju Hegde, CEO Curtis Matthew Davis, COO, President, & Co-founderProductsPhysics Processing UnitsPhysics enginesWebsitewww.ageia.com Ageia, founded in 2002, was a fabless semiconductor company. In 2004, 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; it 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, commercializing it in the form of the Ageia PhysX, a discrete PCI card. Soon after the Ageia implementation of its PhysX processor, ATI and Nvidia announced their own physics implementations. On September 1, 2005, Ageia acquired Meqon from Meqon Research AB, a physics development company based in Sweden. Known for its forward-looki