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I assume this is the technology from TransGaming [1] (famous for their closed-source wine fork cedega). Did Google acquire them? Couldnt find anything on how th

I assume this is the technology from TransGaming [1] (famous for their closed-source wine fork cedega). Did Google acquire them? Couldnt find anything on how this came to happen, and nowhere in the the announcement or the repo do they mention hiw this came to be. [1] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/97847/Transgaming_Launches_SwiftShader_Software_Renderer.php http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/97847/Transgaming_Launche... edit: http://m.marketwired.com/press-release/transgaming-and-google-announce-swiftshader-licensing-agreement-tsx-venture-tng-1781707.htm http://m.marketwired.com/press-release/transgaming-and-googl... - one hell of a license that must be...

bd 10y ago
> one hell of a license that must be... Probably something like when Amazon bought CryEngine license from Crytek and then released it for free as Lumberyard (including releasing source code, though not true open source). The price for such "do whatever you want" license for CryEngine was supposed to be in $50M-70M range and basically rescued Crytek from bankrupcy (SwiftShader would be obviously much cheaper). ---- Ok, managed to find the SwiftShader price (includes TransGaming patents, licensed know-how and licensed intellectual property) - it was $1.25M, announced April 20, 2016: http://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2016-05-04/transgaming-announces-assignment-of-swiftshader-ip-intbebji http://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2016-05-04/transgami...
bhouston 10y ago
Part of Transgaming was acquired by Google, specifically the team working on ANGLE. This happened a couple years ago. Originally Google was funding Transgamings work on ANGLE. Then Transgaming did an SwiftShader license to Google. And then much of the remaining Transgaming CG software expertise was sold to NVIDIA.
mikemackle 10y ago
Transgaming was approached by intel to use the technology to bring gaming to smart tvs around 2010. They went all in on smart tv gaming. The product did not take off and they have been doing very poorly financially, selling all IP (swiftshader apparently to google), the wine-fork to nvidia. They have now announced they are becoming a real-estate company.
- revelation 10y ago
  Press release: http://www.transgaming.com/transgaming-proposes-change-of-business-to-a-real-estate-financing-company/ http://www.transgaming.com/transgaming-proposes-change-of-bu... They're going to be a phenomenal "real estate financing" company, what with a current market capitalization of <$3M.

bd 10y ago

> one hell of a license that must be... Probably something like when Amazon bought CryEngine license from Crytek and then released it for free as Lumberyard (including releasing source code, though not true open source). The price for such "do whatever you want" license for CryEngine was supposed to be in $50M-70M range and basically rescued Crytek from bankrupcy (SwiftShader would be obviously much cheaper). ---- Ok, managed to find the SwiftShader price (includes TransGaming patents, licensed know-how and licensed intellectual property) - it was $1.25M, announced April 20, 2016: http://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2016-05-04/transgaming-announces-assignment-of-swiftshader-ip-intbebji http://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2016-05-04/transgami...

bhouston 10y ago

Part of Transgaming was acquired by Google, specifically the team working on ANGLE. This happened a couple years ago. Originally Google was funding Transgamings work on ANGLE. Then Transgaming did an SwiftShader license to Google. And then much of the remaining Transgaming CG software expertise was sold to NVIDIA.

mikemackle 10y ago

Transgaming was approached by intel to use the technology to bring gaming to smart tvs around 2010. They went all in on smart tv gaming. The product did not take off and they have been doing very poorly financially, selling all IP (swiftshader apparently to google), the wine-fork to nvidia. They have now announced they are becoming a real-estate company.

revelation 10y ago
Press release: http://www.transgaming.com/transgaming-proposes-change-of-business-to-a-real-estate-financing-company/ http://www.transgaming.com/transgaming-proposes-change-of-bu... They're going to be a phenomenal "real estate financing" company, what with a current market capitalization of <$3M.