no the voodoo cards wherre NOT a gpu, they where a 3d accelerator.
no nvidia didnt really invent the gpu/vpu chip they where just the first to market it at genral gamers/users.
I think they bought it to do as they did with Uli. Buy out the competition to effectively eliminate the competition.
Haven't they (nVidia) said that they were going to build theirs gpu's to run physics anyways? Which would have made physics cards unnecessary.
I guess if you can't beat them, buy them.
acctualy the nforce5+ chipsets are ULI rebadges, they are based off of what nvidia got when they bought ULI.
Havoc stoped the GPU phsyics because Intel bought them, hence havoc will eather endup supporting ONLY intel videocards or they will die as i have said in the past when the intel/havoc murder happened.
Nvidia is just doing this so they can be the only ones to support Agena PPU based games, there are a few today ut3 for example.
Hopefully ati/amd step up and find some game companys to support their shader based PPU tech......
alot of the problem here is that they dont have a singel API behind gpu phsyics, if they could come up with an API that all game devs could use then just support it with drivers like d3d and opengl then it would mean most game devs would probbly be willing to support gpu phsyics......but as it stands we are all being jipped.
this wont really change the amdti vs nvidia wars as not alot of games are currently using ppu's and i cant see any more picking it up when ati and nvidia have had gpu as ppu tech for a few years now......well ati has, since the x1k line ati cards have been powerfull enought to run as a ppu :/