The company was acquired by US chip giant Intel in 2007 for $110 million. As well as Havok Physics, the SDK includes Animation Studio, Cloth, Destruction, AI pathfinding capabilities, a Lua-compatible virtual machine, and the Vision Engine formerly of German-based Trinigy.
The company's breakthrough came with the release of the Havok Software Development Kit in 2000, offering developers the ability to quickly and easily add physics effects to their games - and, later, Hollywood films. Irish software outfit Havok was founded in Dublin in 1998 by computer scientists Hugh Reynolds and Steven Collins of Trinity College.
Microsoft has acquired gaming middleware outfit Havok from chipmaker Intel, as the company works to position the Xbox One and Windows 10 as the ultimate gaming platforms.
