At the Computex 2009 in Taipei, AMD has shown a 300mm “wafer” containing the first new generation GPU’s, compatible with DirectX 11. Those are chips manufactured with a 40nm process and known so far as RV870 and indicated by AMD with the codename “Evergreen”. Unfortunately, the details released are very few, but the new chip should arrive on the market together with Microsoft’s new Operational System, Windows 7.

AMD has also shown a few demo videos on the DirectX 11 features, such as SM 5.0, tesselation, Multithreaded Rendering and Compute Shaders.