Havok Taken over by Intel

Recently Havok was brought out be Intel

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070915/tc_pcworld/137232

IF you dont know Havok is a company which make Physics engines and has featured in Bioshock, Half Life 2, company of hero's. Its physics engine also appear in Movies such as the Matix.

To me this seam strange why would Intel want Havok? It says to expand into new markets, well unless Intel want to change their track record on GPU's (copying Daamit) to provide physics engines, I really cant see the benefit to having Havok? Its might be simply money value of owning Havok, but it seam like quite a waste.

Also the move might effect Ageia with dev teams switching over to avoid Intel changes.

Got any views on this one?

To code it better to run on multicores.
Possibly a CPU core will have specialized code for being a PPU or one integrated onto the mobo.
Also possibly to add one onto Larrabee or their upcoming GPU.

There are lots of reasons.
It also isn't out of line to think they will try to code Havok so it runs better on their CPUs than AMD's.

had a look into larrybee. seams like a reasonable thing to do now assuming their working on their own shader engine but they have kept quiet about it, may thats why the need havok to get it up to a working level.

I realy hope it isnt to just optermise in intels favour that will just push AMD thurther into the dump.

This move is bad for the industry...cummingspatrick

Not really, Havok has been the go to in the middleware physics department.
If Intel starts alienating certain companies/consumers or anything like that, devs will just turn to Ageia, go in-house or go elsewhere.

It is really up to Intel now on how this turns out.