The company Lucid not too well known, as well as its brand LucidLogix. This is a small company without its own production facilities, develop design chips. In asset Lucid - about 50 patents and support from several investors, including Intel Capital. To date, most interest among the results of the company’s technology is HYDRA Engine, a claim to a significant breakthrough in establishing systems to ensure joint work of several graphics cards. It is anticipated that the development of Lucid would eliminate a number of limitations of technology and Nvidia SLI AMD / ATI Crossfire. According to announcements, system configuration could include several different cards of different classes - for example, the GeForce 6600 GTX to 280, while total productivity growth will occur almost linearly, and the cost of solutions may be relatively low.

HYDRA Engine - hardware and software technology, which includes a separate chip and drivers holding an intermediate place between drivers and DirectX graphics cards manufacturers. Chip does not produce processing graphics, but only distributes tasks among several (2-4) GPU. Distribution occurs dynamically, in accordance with a capacity of a graphics processor. The above illustration shows a partial sample processing shot one of graphics cards - right in the picture some details missing images, rendering which was “given” another video card.

The composition of the chip HYDRA Engine is a small RISC-processor and logic unit that provides an algorithm for the distribution of tasks between the GPU. The company announced plans in the near future to begin deliveries of samples, more recently developed in the silicon chip to its partners, but the names of those partners were not identified. According to plans Lucid, output of products containing it developed the technology.