AI is changing PC graphics. Microsoft wants DirectX ready

Games are increasingly being rendered using AI, so Microsoft is bringing AI into the way future graphics chips will render games.

Microsoft introduced DirectX Linear Algebra as well as the DirectX Compute Graph Compiler into its DirectX programming interface on Thursday, with previews of each technology due later this year.

If nothing else, Microsoft’s positioning statement regarding both technologies helps explain where each will fit in.

“[Machine learning] is no...