In the description of sandy bridge processors graphic system, given at the past session IDF, distinctly figured the support Of directX 10.1, and compatibility with DirectX 11 Intel company promised to add in its next integrated processors . This context was not clear, we can deal here about drivers for graphic system update or the support Of directX 11 will be realized only in the following generation processors.
As reports associated with the reference to the commentary of Intel representatives , which correspond for the architecture of graphical solutions, the support Of directX 11 will be realized at the level of integrated graphic system of processors only with the passage on 22 nm technical process, already within the architecture ivy bridge. Intel company already has available the models of 22 nm processors, delivery of series copies to its partners will start in a year, and here the announcement of ivy bridge processors will hardly takes place previous the beginning of 2012.
According to some data, all mobile models sandy bridge will be equipped with 12 actuating units of graphic system, and in the desktop segment the part of budgetary models can have only 6 actuating units. The integration of graphic core in the processor brings the greatest dividends precisely in the mobile segment. Even now 38% of newly dispatched mobile processors are equipped with graphic core, in the future this tendency will be only strengthened. In the portion Of Intel it is 55% of world market for graphic, since 2008 the company dispatched 500 ml graphical solutions.