Whoever wrote this article has no knowledge of the subject. This article says nothing about PhysX running off of AMD/ATI graphics hardware.
PhysX is already free, and it can run off the CPU. NVidia will enable PhysX to run on their GPUs. NVidia will allow users to run PhysX off the CPU, just like Ageia did. NVidia is not going to allow AMD/ATI to implement PhysX on their GPUs.
I guarantee you NVidia and Intel engineers are not too happy right now about their recent aquisitions. PhysX and Havok are sh*t. Fortunately, the CUDA platform is open so that Newton Game Dynamics can be implemented with it. I am trying to get Intel to look at Newton. Once I have some more demos for them I think they will consider it.
PhysX is already free, and it can run off the CPU. NVidia will enable PhysX to run on their GPUs. NVidia will allow users to run PhysX off the CPU, just like Ageia did. NVidia is not going to allow AMD/ATI to implement PhysX on their GPUs.
I guarantee you NVidia and Intel engineers are not too happy right now about their recent aquisitions. PhysX and Havok are sh*t. Fortunately, the CUDA platform is open so that Newton Game Dynamics can be implemented with it. I am trying to get Intel to look at Newton. Once I have some more demos for them I think they will consider it.