Havok

Telekinesys Research Limited
Trade name	Havok Group
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Software
Founded	9 July 1998; 26 years ago
Founders	Hugh Reynolds; Steven Collins;
Headquarters	Dublin, Ireland
Number of locations	5 (2020)
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	David Coghlan; (general manager); Andrew Bond; (VP of technology); Dave Gargan; (VP of engineering);
Products	Havok; Vision;
Owner	Intel (2007–2015); Microsoft (2015–present);
Parent	Microsoft Research (2015–present)
Subsidiaries	Trinigy (defunct)
Website	havok.com

Short description: Irish software company

Telekinesys Research Limited (TR), doing business as Havok Group,^[1] is an Irish software company founded on 9 July 1998^[2] by Hugh Reynolds and Steven Collins, based in Dublin, Ireland,^[3] and owned by Microsoft's Ireland Research subsidiary.^[2] They have partnerships with Activision, Electronic Arts, Nintendo, Xbox Game Studios, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Bethesda Softworks and Ubisoft.

Its cross-platform technology is available for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii, Wii U, GameCube, Nintendo Switch, and PCs. Havok's technology has been used in more than 150 game titles, including World of Tanks, Half-Life 2, Halo 2, Dark Souls, Mafia III, Tony Hawk's Project 8, The Elder Scrolls IV, Age of Empires III, Vanquish, Lost Planet 2, Fallout 3 and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Havok products have also been used to drive special effects in movies such as Poseidon, The Matrix, Troy, Kingdom of Heaven and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Havok provides the dynamics driving for Autodesk 3ds Max.

Intel announced the acquisition of Havok in a press release on 14 September 2007.^[4] On 2 October 2015, Intel sold Havok to Microsoft for an undisclosed amount.^[5]

History and awards

History

Havok was founded in 1998 by Hugh Reynolds and Steven Collins of the computer science department in Trinity College, Dublin. Research and development is carried out in offices in Dublin, San Francisco and Tokyo.

Technology

Awards

US National Academy of Television, Arts & Sciences Award, 2008 - (Technical Emmy^[6])
Red Herring 100 - 2006 Winner
Best Choice of Computex - 2006 Winner
OnHollywood - 2006 Winner
Develop Industry Excellence Awards^[7] - 2006 Nominee - Best Tools Provider, 2005 Winner - Best Tools Provider, 2004 Nominee - Best Tools Provider
Game Developer Frontline Award^[8] - 2006 Finalist - Middleware, 2003 Winner - Best Game Component, 2002 Winner - Best Game Component
FileFront - "Most Advanced Technology" of 2004
Computer Graphics World - CGW 2003 Innovation Award

References

↑ "Legal information about Havok". http://havok.com/terms-of-use/.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Havok Group information about foundation and ownership by Microsoft". https://ie.globaldatabase.com/company/telekinesys-research-limited. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
↑ "Students surprised to find top computer games are made on their doorstep". 10 January 2019. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/students-surprised-to-find-top-computer-games-are-made-on-their-doorstep-1.3753929.
↑ "Intel To Acquire Havok". Intel Corporation. 14 September 2007. http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20070914corp.htm?cid=rss-90004-c1-183235.
↑ Foley, Mary Jo (2 October 2015). "Microsoft acquires Havok from Intel, Microsoft has acquired game-technology vendor Havok from Intel for an undisclosed amount.". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-acquires-havok-from-intel/.
↑ "The Emmy Awards". http://www.emmyonline.org/.
↑ "Develop Industry Excellence Awards 2008". http://www.develop-online.net/develop-awards.
↑ "Game Developer—Front Line Awards". http://www.frontlineawards.com/.

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[1] "Legal information about Havok". http://havok.com/terms-of-use/.

[globaldatabase-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "Havok Group information about foundation and ownership by Microsoft". https://ie.globaldatabase.com/company/telekinesys-research-limited. Retrieved 3 November 2021.

[IrishTimes2019-3] "Students surprised to find top computer games are made on their doorstep". 10 January 2019. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/students-surprised-to-find-top-computer-games-are-made-on-their-doorstep-1.3753929.

[4] "Intel To Acquire Havok". Intel Corporation. 14 September 2007. http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20070914corp.htm?cid=rss-90004-c1-183235.

[ZDNet-the-Microsoft-Corporation-acquires-Havok-from-Intel-5] Foley, Mary Jo (2 October 2015). "Microsoft acquires Havok from Intel, Microsoft has acquired game-technology vendor Havok from Intel for an undisclosed amount.". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-acquires-havok-from-intel/.

[6] "The Emmy Awards". http://www.emmyonline.org/.

[7] "Develop Industry Excellence Awards 2008". http://www.develop-online.net/develop-awards.

[8] "Game Developer—Front Line Awards". http://www.frontlineawards.com/.

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Items in italics are no longer maintained or have planned end-of-life dates.
Development	Parallel Studio C++ Compiler Fortran Compiler Debugger Advisor Inspector VTune Array Visualizer Cilk Plus
Components	Concurrent Collections for C++ (CnC) Data Analytics Acceleration Library (DAAL) Indeo Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) Math Kernel Library (MKL) Parallel Building Blocks (PBB) Intel Array Building Blocks (ArBB) Ct Threading Building Blocks (TBB)
Open source	Cilk Plus Concurrent Collections for C++ (CnC) Data Analytics Acceleration Library (DAAL) MeeGo Moblin Threading Building Blocks (TBB) Tizen
Software programs	Telekinesys Research¹ Havok¹ Vision¹ Wind River Systems Simics VxWorks
Organizations	Developer Zone AppUp Research
¹Sold to Microsoft