Computex Taipei 2009: Continuing on with day 2, AMD holds its first press conference of 2009 Computex and they started with a dance performance from Taiwan's Monster cheerleading team with the Dragon theme to represent the Dragon platform AMD now uses.

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Billy Wong, VP of Greater China sales opened the proceedings with a run down of AMD's 40th anniversary achievements and technologies that AMD has brought to market as well as emphasising the Future of Fusion.

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Billy then turned the proceedings over to Rick Berman, product manager who got things started on AMD/ATI's products and also told us today we will see the first showing of a DX11 demo as well as touching on some of the first to market features of ATI graphics' including DX9 and GDDR3, 4 and 5 before any other graphics card maker.

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John Wei, Senior Director of Advanced Technology marketing from TSMC joined Rick on stage to give a run down on the new 40nm process that they have developed for ATI's new GPU production. What was also impressive was TSMC delivered the first 40nm wafer supporting DX11.

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Next we got to see a very brief video run of a DX11 character named Sebastian which was extremely high quality through what is called teselation.

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We were also given a wireframe overview of teselation enabled with the Froblings. That's right, a frog/goblin creation from ATI; bye bye Ruby.

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Our next slide gave us a bit of info on DX11's shader models.

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Rick brought Steve Guggenheimer, corporate VP from Microsoft to show off Windows 7 DX11 capabilities as well as integrating shader processing in Windows with Stream processing to help accelerate the system by CPU/GPU co-processing.

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AMD then moved along into its mobility segments. AMD isn't moving into Netbooks as we would hope, but they've tried to sway the vote towards thin and light notebooks.

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