Advanced Micro Devices will bring its latest graphics hardware based on DirectX 11 to laptops by early next year, aiming to make graphics in Windows 7 smoother and more realistic.

AMD will first offer graphics cards with DirectX 11 for desktops, but it will deliver them for laptops early next year, said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager of AMD's products group, during an interview Thursday at an event in Alameda, California. The first laptops will get support for DirectX 11 through discrete graphics cards, and the technology will trickle down to integrated graphics cards by 2011.

The company has already demonstrated ATI Radeon discrete graphics cards for desktops with DirectX 11 capabilities, though the company has not announced release dates for the products. However, AMD said it would have an announcement related to DirectX 11 products on Sept. 23. The desktop products will be out by the time Microsoft Windows 7 launches on Oct. 22, AMD has said.

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