The sleeping dragon has officially been roused. The widely utilized DirectX game and multimedia APIs are receiving a generational update for the first time in a whopping five years, Microsoft recently revealed on its developer blog. Perhaps not-so-coincidentally, the announcement comes just a few short weeks after the launch of AMD's much-ballyhooed Mantle API.
We'll get our first real glimpse of DirectX 12 on March 20, when Windows graphics development manager Anuj Gosalia gives a talk at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco entitled "DirectX: Evolving Microsoft's Graphics Platform." Windows graphics development lead Max McMullen will also hold a talk dubbed "DirectX Direct3D futures" on the same day.
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