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Intel To Integrate DirectX 11 In Ivy Bridge Chips

Posted by kdawson on from the keeping-up-with-the-jonses dept.

angry tapir writes "Intel will integrate DirectX 11 graphics technology in its next generation of laptop and desktop chips based on the Ivy Bridge architecture, a company executive revealed at CES. AMD has already implemented DirectX 11 in its Fusion low-power chips. Intel expects to start shipping Ivy Bridge chips with DirectX 11 support to PC makers late this year. Ivy Bridge will succeed the recently announced Core i3, i5, and i7 chips, which are based on Intel's Sandy Bridge microarchitecture."

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  1. Other OSes ? by SirGeek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Will Intel provide documentation so that other OSes will be able to make use of this feature ?

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  2. Two Questions by chill · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1. Will this in any way benefit OpenGL?

    2. Will this hinder future versions of DirectX or are they backwards compatible in a way that there would be large chunks in hardware and new changes made as firmware revisions or software implementations?

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  3. Re:also includes DRM ? by Shikaku · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I take the sentiment back.

    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110107/10153912573/intel-claims-drmd-chip-is-not-drm-its-just-copy-protection.shtml

    As someone up in the discussion mentioned, it may have something other than TPM.

    What the hell Intel?

  4. Re:also includes DRM ? by fnj · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At least that is a coherent discussion, which I haven't seen elsewhere. But when idiots talk about DRM, they lose contact with reality. Content producers want true end to end DRM for obvious reasons. This just gives them a way to realize that. It can't encumber anything that presently exists. It just allows some new DRM'ed protocol to be developed; one that only works on recent Intel processors.

    So what? If you don't like closed content, just don't use it!