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Ageia

Logo: Ageia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Fabless semiconductor company

Ageia, founded in 2002, was a fabless semiconductor company. In 2004, Ageia acquired NovodeX, the company who created PhysX – a Physics Processing Unit chip capable of performing game physics calculations much faster than general purpose CPUs; it also licensed out the PhysX SDK (formerly NovodeX SDK), a large physics middleware library for game production.2 It is part of Nvidia.1 It ceased to exist in 2008.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2002Founded1

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Ageia, founded in 2002, was a fabless semiconductor company. In 2004, Ageia acquired NovodeX, the company who created PhysX – a Physics Processing Unit chip capable of performing game physics calculations much faster than general purpose CPUs; it also licensed out the PhysX SDK (formerly NovodeX SDK), a large physics middleware library for game production.2

Corporate structure

Ageia is part of a group headed by Nvidia. 14 entities, 6 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Nvidia Santa Clara, California, United States
    • Ageia Santa Clara
    • Mellanox Technologies Yokneam, Israel
      • Mellanox Technologies (United States) Subsidiary · United States
    • Icera Subsidiary · 100% · Bristol
    • 3dfx Interactive Subsidiary · San Jose
    • HEAVY.AI Subsidiary
    • Mental Images Subsidiary · San Francisco
    • NVIDIA, Helsinki Oy Subsidiary
    • SchedMD Subsidiary · Livermore
    • NVIDIA GRAPHICS PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Bengaluru, India
    • NVIDIA INTERNATIONAL, INC. Subsidiary · Santa Clara, California, United States
      • NVIDIA SINGAPORE PTE LTD Subsidiary · Singapore, Singapore
    • NVIDIA Singapore Pte Ltd Subsidiary · Singapore
    • Nvidia Riva Owned

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 of annual reports filed with the SEC; subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Products and brands

  • physics processing unit

Listed on Wikidata.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded by Nvidia1

Timeline

  1. Feb 13, 2008Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 2002Founded Founded1

Sources

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