FiringSquad have interviewed Havok's vice president of project management Jeff Yates to find out more about ATI's recently plans to use ATI graphics cards as physics chips.

FiringSquad: First, Havok FX has been in the pipeline for several months now. Overall what has the response been like from game developers to the new software?

Jeff Yates: Game developers are truly shocked by the results they see from the GPU. They've generally assumed that what they were seeing from other hardware accelerated tech demos was indicative of what the GPU can "hope to do". What they find out is that the GPU can out deliver those expectations - simulating 10's of thousands of objects – and that rendering these objects is clearly not the bottleneck, as has been implied by some reports.