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By: Joe Topolnisky Sep 15, 2007

Intel Announces Plans To Acquire Havok

Doing a little wheeling and dealing today, Intel has announced plans to acquire physics-software developer Havok. According to the press release, Havok will become a "wholly owned Intel subsidiary", but will continue to operate as an independent business. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Here's a little snippet from the announcement:

"This is a great fit for Havok products, customers and employees," said Havok CEO David O'Meara. "Intel's scale of technology investment and customer reach enable Havok with opportunities to grow more quickly into new market segments with new products than we could have done organically. We believe the winning combination is Havok's technology and customer know-how with Intel's scale. I am excited to be part of this next phase of Havok's growth."

Wow...I didn't see this one coming! It should be interesting to see how this deal plays out. :x

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DhinShin	2007-09-15 #1
I'm not too surprised, Intel have been crawling all over them since they released their Quad cores just like they hired the guy the wrote the ray trace version of the quake engine.

Summoner	2007-09-15 #2
yay for intel nay for AMD would rather they stay 100% indenpendant but it's not like intel can't afford them

Copperhead	2007-09-16 #3
http://futuremark.yougamers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61343

akinkhoo

2007-09-16 #4

Quote:

Originally Posted by Copperhead

http://futuremark.yougamers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61343

err, notice who is the OP?

Anjel_Few	2007-09-17 #5
Man this is some huge news in the land of gaming, and a VERY smart move on Intels Part. Way to really gore AMD/ATI. Man maybe they will figure out a way to somehow add an instruction to there CPU's to speed up Physics on Intel Procs! that would be CRAZY!