"Notebook" Physical accelerator card to say love you is not easy

In 2005, Ageia, an obscure American semiconductor design manufacturer, released the world's first physical accelerator processor (Physics Processing Unit, PPU), a chip that gave users a more realistic picture of 3D gaming. Make the real 3D world possible.

However, the promotion process of physical accelerator cards has been relatively slow, and it has been hampered not only by giants such as ATI and Nvidia, but also by the high prices of users. Imagine, 2000 yuan mainstream high-end industry card for the general consumer is already a luxury, and then spend 2000 yuan to buy a physical accelerator card, not the average user can afford. And for PC makers, it would be pointless to promote an obscure add-on technology at the risk of a significant increase in costs. To this end, Aegia again break the conventional, the introduction of notebook computer-specific physical accelerator card, and to the media to display a physical graphics card samples. As a result of the lack of pictures and materials, the author only knows that the physical accelerator card dedicated to this laptop is external, and its size is similar to that of a docking dock dedicated to a ThinkPad notebook computer.

With the development of technology, many of the previous functions of the notebook computer can not be achieved, now become a fact. For example, processor upgrades, hard drive SLI, and so on. Facing the Special Physics accelerator card of the notebook computer, many people think this is a technology hype, the desktop platform has not been able to popularize, how will turn to the notebook computer, however in recent years the development speed of the notebook computer not only has not lagged behind the desktop, moreover in many areas has overtaken (such as the mixed hard If the notebook computer can fully popularize the physical accelerator card, will make the mobile graphics field to be changed dramatically. This article is published in http://www.bianceng.cn

However, in order to popularize the physical accelerator card in the notebook computer, the difficulty naturally is not small. First of all, naturally is the cost, not to say that 2000 yuan a physical accelerator card, even if the cost of Ageia to 1000 yuan, I am afraid there are few notebook manufacturers will buy, and secondly, the product form must be changed, who would like to carry an external "docking" outside the whole day running around? In other words, ageia must solve the problem of integration of physical accelerator chips; Finally, the graphics chip giants such as ATi and Nvidia will certainly not let Ageia grow, which is not good news for the weak ageia.