| Mistershine said: Denied by Ageia. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20080122131731_Ageia_Technologies_Denies_Its_Takeover_by_Third_Party.html |
They deny any change in the investors of the company, but it's still possible their could be something else in the works. A company could have purchased an exclusivity deal or the option to buy them at a later time. Either one of those would have essentially the same results as a buyout.
If there is any truth to this, I doubt it would be nVidia. Why should nVidia do anything to promote physics cards when there's already a push to start doing physics work on GPUs? Right now, the GPU is the most important component of a gaming system and nVidia doesn't want anything to threaten that.
There was a cryptic Surfer Girl rumor about the Wii getting more raw power soon. This could be related. I'm not sure how such a thing would work though. Unless there's some sort of exceptionally well hidden expansion port on the Wii, there's no way you could use an external device for number crunching.
Well I guess if anything really did happen we'll hear about it eventually and if not, we'll just forget about it.
