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In a Reuters news article dated April 28th, 2006 regarding the PhysX processor, the PhysX processor will go on sale in the U.S. in May for $300.00, a price that has people raising eyebrows and asking whether it's worth spending $300.00 on an "unproven technology." Reuters stated that the processor could be well beyond its time because they mentioned a demonstration of the PhysX chip using the game Cellfactor and they said before the demonstration, the graphics level actually needed to be lowered in the game itself because Reuters stated that the PhysX processor "can generate so many objects that even the twin graphics processors in Hegde CEO 's top-end PC have trouble tracking them at the highest image quality." Reuters stated that "Hegde is betting that gamers will happily sacrifice some graphical fidelity in exchange for greater interactivity." Reuters also reported that the PhysX chip first debuted in March in high-end gaming PCs from Dell, Dell's Alienware unit, and Falcon Northwest. (Source: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060428/tc_nm/games_physics_dc&printer=1;_ylt=Ah87Cdh.jedu1GjTu6t9yN5U.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE- New physics chip aims to shake up video games - Fri Apr 28, 2:27 PM ET - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)] PPU A Physics processing unit, or PPU , is a processor specially designed to alleviate calculations from a computer's CPU , specifically calculations involving physics. A very similar concept was introduced in the last decade, with the Graphics Processing Unit , or ''' GPU '''. In modern computers, the GPU is used to handle Vector Graphics , and, by extension, 3D Graphics . SPECIFICATIONS
BOARD PARTNERS SUPPORTED TITLES Only certain games can benefit from the presence of a PhysX card. Available in Spring of 2006 Future Titles
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