Taipei, Taiwan; March 22, 2006 ASUSTeK Computer Inc (ASUS), a leading provider of computing, communication and consumer electronics products, today confirmed that it will be one of the driving forces in creating the worldwide physics accelerator market with the breakthrough AGEIA PhysX processor.
The company will begin distributing these exciting new AGEIA PhysX Accelerator cards in May 2006. ASUS will be one of the only two companies to manufacture the card, and will be the sole company making the card in a 256MB configuration.
Partnered since May 2005, ASUS and AGEIA Technologies have been working together to bring a totally new category in PC hardware, the physics accelerator card, to market for avid PC gamers. The new ASUS card is capable of delivering a completely new gaming experience with dramatic, pervasive real-time physical motion and interaction that will change gaming forever.
Today, over 60 developers are planning and creating more than 100 games that take advantage of the new physics processor.
"Physics acceleration will do for dynamic gameplay what graphics cards did for the way games look," said Kent Chien, Manager of the Multimedia Department for ASUS. "We are excited to be at the forefront of this hardware wave that we can envision the cards becoming as important to games as graphics cards are today."
"ASUS has incredible reach, and is recognised as a market force in PC gaming around the world," said Manju Hegde, CEO of AGEIA.
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ASUSTeK Computer Inc (TSE:2357) is a leading provider of 3C total solutions. Its product portfolio includes notebooks, motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, information appliances, desktop PCs, servers, wireless solutions, mobile phones and networking devices. With world-class engineering and offices and subsidiaries located in all corners of the world, ASUSTeK provides innovative solutions to consumers, businesses and OEM/ODM customers, and won 1 706 awards in 2005, with recognition in design excellence from iF Gold Award, while ranks in the tops of Business Week InfoTech for the eighth straight year. The company is the perennial leader of the motherboard and graphics card industries and a top four maker globally for notebooks.