First DX10.1 silicon is unexpected

DURING THIS YEARS’S Siggraph, Power VR held a presentation in which Kristof Beets, a known technology evangelist for the company outlined the current and future plans by PowerVR.

One of those products is SGX, a next generation 3D IP chip that marks coming of OpenGL ES 2.0 in silicon, optimised for OpenVG 1.1 and supporting Direct3D Mobile, 9L (Longhorn) and 10.1, industry’s first announced part to do so.