Question: Information: - ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) is a science, technology, engineering and mathematics university in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. Like its sister institution EPFL, it is an integral part of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain (ETH Domain) that is directly subordinate to Switzerland's Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research. - Nvidia Corporation (most commonly referred to as Nvidia, stylized as NVIDIA, nVIDIA or nvidia) is an American technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming market, as well as system on a chip units (SOCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Nvidia's primary GPU product line, labeled "GeForce", is in direct competition with Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) "Radeon" products. Nvidia expanded its presence in the gaming industry with its handheld SHIELD Portable, SHIELD Tablet, and SHIELD Android TV. - A physics processing unit (PPU) is a dedicated microprocessor designed to handle the calculations of physics, especially in the physics engine of video games. - Physics (from , from "phusis" "nature") is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion and behavior through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. One of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, the main goal of physics is to understand how the universe behaves. - PhysX is a proprietary realtime physics engine middleware SDK. PhysX was authored at NovodeX, an ETH Zurich spin-off. In 2004 NovodeX was acquired by Ageia, and in February 2008 Ageia was acquired by Nvidia. - In physics, energy is the property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on or to heat the object, and can be converted in form, but not created or destroyed. The SI unit of energy is the joule, which is the energy transferred to an object by the mechanical work of moving it a distance of 1 metre against a force of 1 newton. - A microprocessor is a computer processor which incorporates the functions of a computer's central processing unit (CPU) on a single integrated circuit (IC), or at most a few integrated circuits. The microprocessor is a multipurpose, clock driven, register based, programmable electronic device which accepts digital or binary data as input, processes it according to instructions stored in its memory, and provides results as output. Microprocessors contain both combinational logic and sequential digital logic. Microprocessors operate on numbers and symbols represented in the binary numeral system. - Ageia , founded in 2002 , was a fabless semiconductor company . 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 ; they also licensed out the PhysX SDK ( formerly NovodeX SDK ) , a large physics middleware library for game production . Ageia was noted as being the first company to develop hardware designed to offload calculation of video game physics from the CPU to a separate chip . Prior to this , solutions from ATI and Nvidia had not been planned nor announced . Soon after the Ageia implementation of their PhysX processor , Nvidia and ATI announced their own physics implementations . 1st September 2005 , AGEIA acquires Meqon , a physics development company based in Sweden . Known for its forward - looking features and multi-platform support , Meqon earned international acclaim in the games world for its physics technology incorporated in 3D Realms '' Duke Nukem Forever and Saber Interactive 's TimeShift . On February 4 , 2008 , Nvidia announced that it would acquire Ageia . On February 13 , 2008 , the merger was finalized . The PhysX engine is now known as Nvidia PhysX . What is the relationship between 'ageia' and 'santa clara'?
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