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Lucidlogix gets an $8 million investment
THE MAKER of a chip that links graphics cards from ATI and Nvidia has attracted an $8 million investment.
Lucidlogix's Hydra 200 chip has been selling rather well and has attracted the interest of venture capitalists.
Its latest funding round was led by Rho Ventures, Giza Venture Capital, and Genesis Partners, bringing the total investment in the Kfar Netter, Israel-headquartered company to $40 million.
Lucidlogix flogs Hydra 200 chips to motherboard manufacturers that integrate it into their consumer and enterprise-level boards.
This means that PC manufacturers and users can then outfit those computers with multiple discrete graphics cards by competitors ATI and Nvidia, with the Hydra chip managing load balancing between them.
Of course the Red Team and the Green Goblin have both so far refused to bless the Hydra chip and the jury is still out on whether or not the lashup is particularly reliable.
MSI Fusion motherboards have been running Hydra but the software drivers have been considered a bit iffy. When we saw it at CeBIT it crashed right in front of us.
However, with this sort of investment cash behind it, Lucidlogix might be able to fine tune its product quite nicely.
What would be funny is if Intel were to grab the company and integrate its technology into its southbridge chipsets. That way it wouldn't need buy Nvidia's SLI chips or a license for ATI's Crossfire technology.
Lucidlogix president Offir Remez said that the company is "making the natural transition from a research and development startup to a silicon-product company."
Lucidlogix CEO Moshe Steiner in a statement that the additional cash from venture capitalists will enable the company to expand to international markets and boost sales. µ
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the author comments that is would be nice if intel grabbed the company and integrated it into its southbridge. if you do a little bit of digging youll learn that intel actually did invest money into the company early on and it is very interested with this technology
arent they busted on their claim of Lenear Performance increase with GPU cards count !?!
Just like PhysX, I'd imagine Lucidlogix main goal was to fill a need for a big company (in this case Intel) and then get bought out. That's probably the sales pitch that has attracted the money from venture capitalists.
The money is being spend on advertising and product promotion.....well if it worked as promised in the first place...remember that promise of near linear gpu scaling...*cough* then the product would sell itself.....best you guys concentrate on your drivers.