DirectX Developer Blog

DirectX Innovation on Display at GDC 2024

February 28, 2024 Feb 28, 2024 02/28/24

Joshua Tucker

The excitement is building as we finish our preparations for this year's Game Developers Conference, set to kick off on March 18th. Industry leaders, developers, and enthusiasts will converge on San Francisco for a week of innovation, and the DirectX team here at Microsoft has a lot of exciting news to share. We've been gearing up to showcase ...

Introducing Neural Processor Unit (NPU) support in DirectML (developer preview)

February 1, 2024 Feb 1, 2024 02/1/24

Chad Pralle

A developer preview of DirectML support for Intel® AI boost With the release of DirectML 1.13.1 and the ONNX Runtime 1.17, we are excited to announce developer preview support for NPU acceleration in DirectML, the machine learning platform API for Windows. This developer preview enables support for a subset of models on new Windows 11 ...