If theres number One Short Lived Product, its' Intel System Board. Havok is NOT PhysX.
PhysX has good first reports & leads me to believe that if Nvidia followed thru on Years of CPU start up 
Threats, well just might have heck of family entertainment & full functioning computer for living room.

Media takes speed. Media takes dedicated pathways that can withstand toe typing, crash & burn testing plus forever hours into 2 year max hr machinry. Nvidia can do that. & as game cards where once made only for one specific game, now computer can be made for one specific purpose, high speed everything.FREEDOM.
As AMD saviors pulling Cork on Wondra Dra .G.line, Women woryy if thuier Teenager is Violent Enough.
Nvidia Can Fill those Gaps completely with 100% Nvidia Plus controllers, BIG Controllers that take Ultimate top Beyond Vantage, where cores cann't be counted, exactly.
Drashek

Intel and graphics!.. msg me when you stop laughing!!
I will believe it when i see it.. with some drivers that work preferably!!!!

Sorry Charlie, you are forgetting the role of Microsoft in this business.
First of all all what happens in Xbox 360 world is ruled by MS, so which API will the 360 support will depend on MS choices.

Second, in the PC arena, who says that MS does not add phisic API to a future DirectX release. Story tells us that MS fight any standard nod developed in Redmond, and so will do with phisic too.

This is great news! I'm really pleased DAMMIT are going with Havok/Intel and leaving NV out of the picture. With the inclusion of physics processing being included in RV770 (and now GT200 + delays) I was wondering where exactly ATI was going to. I, for one, will be buying 2 of the new 4870s for crossfireX in the next month or so...

...I would cry if nvidia were to suffer large losses. Who will take their place? Either AMD or Intel, it would seem. A vote in their favor is a vote in favor of giving already large corporations even stronger monopolies.

Fantastic.

.. the bigger you are the harder the fall.

nvidia's time to fall?
they been up top for way too long.

its good to see competition.
the industry is getting "hot" and its great to see that.

it was a lil stale at one point.

sometimes, nVidia teams-up with Intel, and vice versa
sometimes, Intel teams-up with AMD/ATI and vice versa...
sometimes, AMD/ATI teams-up with nVidia and... you know...

what a love triangle, really...

You will cry if any of the big players in the CPU or GPU business will leave the field. We need their competition.

You forget, the Xbox 360 and PS3 already support the PhysX API. It's actually the recommended physics middleware for these consoles. Likewise, you could argue that all Intel CPUs 'support' PhysX, just as any CPU does, though badly compared to a GPU or PhysX card.

By 'two leading consoles' you mean the Xbox 360 and the PS3? No, wait, the Playstation has an nVidia chip. You must mean... the Wii. Don't make me laugh.

And even though the 360 has a pre-R600 chip inside, it still supports and uses PhysX.

In those stakes, DAAMIT either sides with Intel, or with nVidia/Microsoft/Sony. Makes this move of supporting Havok look like an attempt to argue with any standard that nVidia supports. We saw that with MXM, ATi tried to develop their own entirely new laptop socket called AXIOM, but eventually just made MXM stuff. They're also refusing to support CUDA, even though nVidia is being uncharacteristically generous by offering it as a standard anyone can support.

Of course, if ATi did support CUDA, they'd get PhysX as well. Makes you wonder why they bother arguing.