Microsoft announces DirectX Raytracing 1.2 claiming 'game changing' performance benefits but it looks like the important stuff is already in Nvidia's RTX GPUs, even the old ones

Microsoft announces DirectX Raytracing 1.2 claiming ‘game changing’ performance benefits but it looks like the important stuff is already in Nvidia’s RTX GPUs, even the old ones

Microsoft has announced DirectX Raytracing 1.2 at the GDC conference with claims of “game changing” performance benefits. But the newly revised API looks an awful lot like it has incorporated some key Nvidia technologies rather than introducing new features and so may not be the ray-tracing performance panacea we’ve all been waiting for. Microsoft is…

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One of Embracer’s top executives resigns and announces his own gaming company at the same time

Former Embracer Group chief operating officer Egil Strunke announced on LinkedIn today that he has formally resigned as the company’s chief operating officer—essentially, Embracer’s number-two guy—and that he’s now launching an all-new game company of his own. Strunke’s departure was initially announced in June, a month after the last-minute collapse of a “groundbreaking strategic partnership”…

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Intel claims its next-gen ‘Panther Lake’ mobile chips will combine the power efficiency of Lunar Lake mobile with the performance of Arrow Lake-H desktop

Panther Lake, Intel’s next generation of mobile chip, was shown off in person during presentations at Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan. The headline information is a continuation of Lunar Lake’s power efficiency, an upgraded iGPU, and a launch in early 2026. This is all as reported by Wccftech, who managed to sit in on a…

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