AGEIA company for a long time tried to sell its PhysX accelerator at price from $ 249 to $ 299, and only a year ago their price was reduced to $ 179.
We start with the comments of AMD and NVIDIA representatives .In September, Intel company purchased Havok and this last became its personal engine for video chip. While Intel promises to not interfere in Havok affairs , the latest design certainly will not receive a large support from games developers . Intel do no have its own discrete graphics, and it is unlikely to allow the Havok unit to support NVIDIA or AMD initiatives .
AMD in this situation will try to speed up the physics by multi-processor . NVIDIA also appreciates the absorption of Havok by Intel company , as a negative factor for accelerating the development of Physics video chip , but remains slightly more optimistic. The Place of Havok can be taken by other developers...
AGEIA is going to produce packages for the modernization of Unreal Tournament 3, and together with partners from American retail networks , they will offers a substantial discounts on the purchase of AGEIA PhysX cards. For example, Card from BFG with 128 MB GDDR-3 memory can be purchased for $ 99-125. .....