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===PhysX P1 (PPU) hardware specifications===

[[ASUS]] and [[BFG Technologies]] bought licenses to manufacture alternate versions of AGEIA's PPU, the PhysX P1 with 128 MB GDDR3:

* Multi-core device based on the [[MIPS instruction set|MIPSarchitecture]] instruction set with integrated physics acceleration hardware and memory subsystem with "tons of cores"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_faq.html |title=PhysX FAQ |publisher=NVIDIA Corporation}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blachford.info/computer/articles/PhysX2.html |title=Lets Get Physical: Inside The PhysX Physics Processor |publisher= |author=Nicholas Blachford |date=2006}}</ref>

** 125 million [[transistor]]s<ref name="Legit Reviews">[http://www.legitreviews.com/article/346/2/ Legit Reviews - ASUS's AGEIA PhysX P1 Card]</ref>

** 182&nbsp;mm² [[die (integrated circuit)|die]] size