AMD Company studied the advance of its physical platform for accelerating effects in the games, but it tried to make by its more open and universal, than NVIDIA physX. The latter works only on NVIDIA video cards, which support CUDA.
Yesterday AMD company declared about the addition to open physics platform of the support Of pixelux DMM and Bullet physics - two physical emgines. Any platform with the support Of openCL or DirectCompute now can use this physical engine, and the interested games developers will obtain the corresponding set of instruments free of charge.
Commenting on this event, Richard huddy reported that NVIDIA propose to game developers its physX platform in exchange for certain marketing support.