An article on German magazine Heise.de from last week speaks with AMD Vice President of Global Channel Sales Roy Taylor, who seems to say that they do not believe Microsoft has any plans for DirectX 12. This is noted on Slashdot (thanks Ant by way of this story). This seems like one of those stories that will inspire a correction of some sorts, but here is what a Google machine translation makes of his comments, which do not sound nearly as final as Slashdot's write-up implies: "But there will be no DirectX 12th That's it. To our knowledge there are no plans for DirectX 12th If the vote should not and someone wants to correct me - wonderful. But now we really need excellent games like Crysis or Bioshock Infinite 3, on the one hand to encourage the industry and also to reward our buyers."