Khronos Launches Heterogeneous Computing Initiative
Jun 16, 2008 - Call for industry participation to create open, royalty-free standard for programming parallel computing across GPUs and CPUs Read Release.
Khronos Press Releases
TransGaming Joins Industry Leaders as Khronos Group Member
Mar 28, 2008 - Software Technology Leader Adds A New Voice To The Creation Of Open Standards For The Authoring And Acceleration Of Dynamic Media Read Release.
Khronos Releases OpenKODE 1.0 Royalty-Free Standard for Mobile Rich-Media and Graphics Application Portability
Feb 10, 2008 - The Khronos™ Group publicly released the final OpenKODE™ 1.0 specification, a royalty-free, cross-platform open standard that bundles a set of native APIs to provide increased source portability for rich media and graphics applications. Khronos also released a full conformance test suite for OpenKODE 1.0 to enable conformant implementations to use the OpenKODE trademark. Read Release.
Khronos Group Releases OpenMAX AL 1.0 and OpenSL ES 1.0 Specifications for Embedded Media and Audio Processing
Oct 02, 2007 - The Khronos™ Group has publicly released provisional versions of the OpenMAX™ AL 1.0 and OpenSL ES™ 1.0 specifications to enable widespread developer feedback and rapid industry implementation of these new standards that are designed to bring portable, state-of-the-art audio, video and image acceleration to mobile handsets and embedded devices. Both specifications are expected to be finalized by mid-2008. Read Release.
SoftBank Mobile Joins the Khronos Group
Aug 07, 2007 - SoftBank Mobile enabled to influence and promote open media standards for mobile devices - including OpenKODE adopted as part of SoftBank Mobile’s new POP-i platform. Read Release.
COLLADA 3D Asset Intermediate Standard Accelerates Adoption and is to be Extended for 2D Vector Graphics
Aug 07, 2007 - Many leading authoring packages add support for COLLADA; Specification to be extended to add support for vector graphics assets such as fonts; Documentation update released; Conformance Tests nearing fourth quarter release; COLLADA Contest Details Announced Read Release.
Khronos Group Gains Diverse New Members and Broadens Standards-based Ecosystem
Aug 07, 2007 - A rich variety of companies join Khronos to drive opportunities for accelerated graphics and media in worldwide markets; Standards-based ecosystem strengthened by member companies providing consultancy services around Khronos APIs. Anark, Antix, ArcSoft, GraphTech, Mentor Graphics, SoftBank Mobile, SRS Labs and Wind River have joined the existing Khronos membership to help define open standards for the authoring and acceleration of dynamic media on platforms ranging from embedded systems such as mobile phones to high-performance desktop and workstation systems. Read Release.
SOFTBANK MOBILE Adopts OpenKODE to Provide Rich Media Acceleration in its New Handset Platform
May 22, 2007 - SOFTBANK MOBILE Corporation has adopted the OpenKODE standard for advanced graphics and media processing in its new Portable Open Platform Initiative (POP-i) platform for mobile phones that was also announced today. The POP-i platform will enable native applications to access the full power of the OpenKODE media stack architecture which enables 2D graphics, 3D graphics, video and audio to be accelerated and flexibly combined to unlock the full potential of rich media silicon. The use of OpenKODE will encourage and protect the investment of software developers in the POP-i platform by ensuring application portability across multiple handsets – both now and into the future as new handsets are introduced. Read Release.
Khronos and Web3D Enter Official Cooperation as Mobile & Internet Continue to Converge
Apr 17, 2007 - Agreement between groups will accelerate the architectural evolution of cell phones and the web and they both use 3D graphics It’s ironic that over the past decade, two not-for-profit groups have been working diligently behind the scenes to lay the cornerstones of what is now becoming a white-hot, multi-billion dollar market. Many years ago, the founders of these organizations envisioned a whole new way of communicating and sharing data. Since then, the Khronos Group has successfully set the foundation for mobile 3D, TV and video; and the Web3D Consortium has made significant progress in introducing and commercializing real-time, connected 3D into the medical imaging, military simulation, geospatial, CAD, and web-based visualization markets. Read Release.
Khronos Group Initiates New Working Groups, Gains New Membership and Launches COLLADA Contest
Mar 07, 2007 - The glFX Working Group is defining a run-time API to enable advanced 3D visual effects contained in a COLLADA FX file to be easily and portably used in OpenGL and OpenGL ES applications. The Composition Working Group is defining graphics APIs to enable window systems to be constructed using open standards for display composition to encourage mobile devices to use fully accelerated advanced user interfaces. Ardites, AZTEQ mobile, DaimlerChrysler, Coding Technologies, Marvell, Matrox, McubeWorks, Micron, NDS, NXP, Omegame, PineOne Communications, Tungsten and Vodafone have joined as new members. Khronos also announced a COLLADA contest to encourage open source COLLADA conditioning programs to be created and uploaded into the COLLADA Framework on Sourceforge. Read Release.
Khronos Releases Finalized OpenGL ES 2.0 Specification
Mar 05, 2007 - Khronos has ratified and publicly released the finalized OpenGL ES 2.0 specification for programmable 3D graphics that will significantly boost the functionality, flexibility and visual realism offered by a wide range of embedded and mobile devices. Multiple OpenGL ES 2.0 silicon devices are expected to commence shipment before the end of 2007. Read Release.
Khronos Releases Official Conformance Tests and Open Source Sample Implementation for OpenVG 1.0
Mar 05, 2007 - The OpenVG 1.0 Conformance Tests that can be used by vendors to certify that OpenVG implementations are compliant with the OpenVG specification and use the OpenVG trademark to encourage reliable, cross-platform vector graphics interoperability. The Sample implementation of OpenVG 1.0 is now open source under an MIT license to further enable OpenVG implementers and developers to leverage this innovative, royalty-free open standard in their products and applications. Read Release.
Khronos Releases OpenKODE 1.0 Specification for Mobile Rich Media Applications
Feb 12, 2007 - Khronos has released a provisional version of the OpenKODE 1.0 specification to enable widespread developer feedback and rapid industry implementation of this important new standard that is designed to bring portability and advanced media acceleration to mobile handsets. The conformance tests for OpenKODE 1.0 are expected to be publicly released during the second quarter of 2007 to enable conformant implementations to use the OpenKODE trademark. Read Release.
Khronos Releases New OpenMAX IL 1.1 Standard for Enhanced Streaming Media Portability
Feb 12, 2007 - The newly ratified and released OpenMAX IL 1.1 defines enhanced media component interfaces to enable the rapid integration of media acceleration into streaming media frameworks on embedded devices. Khronos has also launched the OpenMAX IL 1.1 Adopter's Program that provides access to a new set of conformance tests. Read Release.
Khronos Invites Public Review of OpenKODE 1.0 Specification Draft
Dec 12, 2006 - Khronos invites any interested party to execute a Khronos Reviewer's Agreement and provide feedback and guidance to the OpenKODE Working Group to ensure that this important standard meet the needs of the industry. Futuremark Corporation will create the OpenKODE Conformance Test Suite that will help ensure that OpenKODE provides a highly reliable set of cross-platform media APIs that mobile application developers can trust on any platform. Read Release.
OpenGL 2.1 Specification Publicly Released
Aug 02, 2006 - OpenGL 2.1 adds backwards compatible enhancements to OpenGL’s advanced programmable pipeline including: Pixel Buffer Objects for fast texture and pixel copies between frame buffer and buffer objects in GPU memory; texture images specified in standard sRGB color space for enhanced application color management flexibility; and numerous additions to increase the flexibility of shader programming including non-square matrix support, support for arrays as first-class objects, a fragment position query in shaders using Point Sprites and an invariant attribute for variables to enhance shader code reliability. Read Release.
COLLADA Open Standard for 3D Asset Interchange Gains Significant Industry Momentum
Aug 01, 2006 - The COLLADA open standard XML-based digital asset exchange schema for interactive 3D applications is gaining rapid industry acceptance. COLLADA 1.4 is now supported by the industry's leading 3D authoring tools including 3ds Max, Blender, DAZ|Studio, Feeling Viewer, FX Composer, Google Earth, Houdini, Maya, Sketchup, and XSI as well as Khronos' COLLADA Test Framework, COLLADA DOM/FX/RT/Refinery COLLADA 1.4 includes core features such as mesh geometry, skinning, morphing, animation and data validation as well as COLLADA FX for defining visual effects and COLLADA Physics for physics effects including rigid body dynamics, rag dolls, constraints and collision volumes. Read Release.
OpenGL ARB to Pass Control of OpenGL Specification to Khronos Group
Jul 31, 2006 - The OpenGL ARB (Architecture Review Board), the governing body for OpenGL, has voted to transfer control of the OpenGL API standard to the Khronos Group. The Khronos Group has voted to establish an OpenGL Working Group that will control and evolve this vital standard for cross-platform 3D graphics. The full transfer of OpenGL to Khronos is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2006 with full support for OpenGL and its evolution to continue uninterrupted during this transition. Read Release.
Apple, Dell, Google and Others Join the Khronos Group
Jul 31, 2006 - Acrodea, Apple, DAZ3D, Dell, Google, Gremedy, Codeplay, and S3 Graphics have joined well over one hundred existing Khronos Group Members to define open standards for the authoring and acceleration of dynamic media on platforms ranging from embedded systems such as mobile phones to high-performance desktop and workstation systems. Read Release.
Bellagio OpenMAX IL open source sample implementation for Linux lets developers create OpenMAX multimedia components
Jun 27, 2006 - STMicroelectronics released v0.2 of Bellagio, the open source sample implementation of OpenMAX IL for Linux. Bellagio enables Linux software developers and ISVs to familiarize themselves with OpenMAX IL API and to develop their own OpenMAX components for multimedia codecs and controls. Read Release.
COLLADA gains momentum as standard for exchanging 3D models between content and game creation tools
Jun 22, 2006 - KML, the geographic markup language for Google Earth, now supports the COLLADA digital asset exchange schema. COLLADA enables Google Earth to take advantage of 3D models with enhanced geometry and support for textures for greater realism. The COLLADA 1.4 schema is already supported in many popular 3D content creation applications as well as middleware and 3D applications. Read Release.
Khronos Announces Release of COLLADA 1.4 and New Members Emdigo, Feeling Software and Softimage
Mar 22, 2006 - The new, royalty-free COLLADA 1.4 specification has been ratified and released; Emdigo, Feeling Software and Softimage have joined as new members to participate in further development of COLLADA and other Khronos technologies; and Softimage has announced that SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.5.1 now includes COLLADA 1.4 support. Read Release.
Khronos Announces New Members Monotype Imaging, Scaleform, TAT and Accelerated OpenVG Demonstrations
Mar 22, 2006 - Numerous Khronos members are now shipping devices accelerating OpenVG 1.0, a royalty-free, open standard for low-level 2D vector graphics. Monotype Imaging, Scaleform and TAT have joined to participate in ongoing development of the OpenVG API. The OpenVG standard has been designed to seamlessly interoperate with OpenGL ES 3D graphics; creating a high-performance, fully integrated 2D and 3D embedded graphics acceleration environment. Read Release.
Intel Joins Khronos Group as a Promoting Member
Mar 22, 2006 - Intel has joined the Khronos Group as a Promoting member and will also hold a seat on the Board of Directors to further advance the evolution of open standards that enable the authoring and acceleration of games and media on a wide variety of platforms and devices, such as mobile phones. Also announced in other Khronos news today, new members Emdigo, Feeling Software, Monotype Imaging, RadVision, Reigncomm, Scaleform, Softimage and TAT bring the total number of companies participating in the Khronos Group to over one hundred. Read Release.
OpenMAX DL enables rapid implementation and seamless portability of optimized video, image and audio codecs
Feb 12, 2006 - Khronos releases the royalty-free OpenMAX DL 1.0 specification to enable rapid implementation and seamless portability of optimized video, image and audio codecs on diverse silicon architectures. OpenMAX DL defines an API which contains a comprehensive set of audio, video and imaging functions that can be implemented and optimized on new processors by silicon vendors and then used by codec vendors to code a wide range of codec functionality. OpenMAX adds significant value to OEMs, ODMs and codec and middleware providers by improving time-to-market for advanced codecs on new silicon with significantly reduced software development costs and enables silicon providers to provide an open-standards-based platform for optimized codec development. Read Release.
Khronos Announces New OpenKODE Initiative to Define a Mobile Media Application Development Environment
January 4, 2006 - The OpenKODE™ (Khronos Open Development Environment) initiative will create a coherent development and deployment platform to enable and encourage the development of portable, high-performance media applications for mobile handsets. OpenKODE will bring together the family of Khronos Media Application Programming Interfaces (APIs): OpenGL® ES for 3D graphics, OpenMAX™ for streaming media, OpenVG™ for vector 2D graphics and OpenSL ES™ for audio; and will define a new user-input API and potentially add new APIs for access to functionality such as multi-player networking and operating system resources to create a complete, coherently designed, reliably available platform that can be implemented across a wide variety of mobile and embedded devices. Read Release.
Khronos Releases OpenMAX IL 1.0 Specification for Standardized Integration of Codecs into Embedded Media Frameworks
January 4, 2006 - Khronos publicly released the royalty-free OpenMAX™ IL 1.0 specification that defines media component interfaces to enable the rapid integration of accelerated codecs into streaming media frameworks on embedded devices. The OpenMAX IL (Integration Layer) API defines a standardized media component interface to enable developers and platform providers to integrate and communicate with multimedia codecs implemented in hardware or software. Read Release.
Imagination Technologies demonstrates OpenGL ES-accelerated Quake III Arena and Quake Mobile at KGC 2005: Quake 3 running in the palm of your hand
November 10, 2005 - Imagination Technologies will be demonstrating Quake Mobile and Quake III Arena running with full hardware acceleration using OpenGL ES on PowerVR-enabled Dell Axim X51v this week at the Korean Games Conference / G Star 2005. Read Release.
MTIS to develop the Khronos conformance test suite for the OpenVG
November 10, 2005 - MTIS will provide engineering resources and graphics expertise to develop the OpenVG Conformance test suite for availability in the first half of 2006. The Khronos OpenVG working group will specify and approve the conformance tests to ensure that implementations that use the OpenVG logo are of a high quality - enabling the OpenVG API to provide a reliable and consistent platform for software developers. Read Release.
Khronos Members Endorse New OpenGL ES Benchmark from Futuremark
November 8, 2005 - 3DMarkMobile06 is the first benchmark designed specifically to benchmark next generation OpenGL ES 1.0 and OpenGL ES 1.1 hardware accelerated mobile handsets and is developed in cooperation with members of Futuremark's Handheld Benchmark Developer Program (BDP) members; including ARM, ATI, Bitboys, DMP, Falanx, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Khronos Group, NVIDIA and Symbian. An end-user friendly of 3DMarkMobile06 is expected to be launched later next year to enable consumers to conduct their own benchmarking of handsets with hardware accelerated 3D graphics. Read Release.
OpenGL ES Safety Critical API Gains Momentum as Diehl Avionik and Zandiant Technologies Join Khronos
September 19, 2005 - Diehl Avionik Systeme and Zandiant Technologies, a leading supplier in automotive navigation and telematics systems have become Khronos Contributing Members. The defense and aerospace industry has traditionally relied on proprietary subset definitions of OpenGL, but manufacturers are now demanding open standard solutions to reduce development costs and shorten product development times. Princess Interactive, specializing in visual simulation and virtual prototyping, has become an OpenGL ES Adopter in order to port to their INSIDES V4.0 virtual prototyping/virtual cockpit system. Read Release.
Khronos Publicly Releases OpenGL ES 2.0 Specification Bringing Streamlined Shader Programming to Embedded Graphics
August 1, 2005 - Khronos has publicly released the OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL ES 1.1 Extension Pack, EGL 1.2 and OpenGL ES-SC 1.0 specifications. OpenGL ES 2.0 combines a version of the OpenGL Shading Language for programming vertex and fragment shaders that has been adapted for embedded platforms, together with a streamlined API from OpenGL ES 1.1 that has removed any fixed functionality that can be easily replaced by shader programs. The OpenGL ES 1.1 Extension Pack collects together a number of optional extensions in one specification to extend OpenGL ES functionality for fixed function hardware. OpenGL ES-SC 1.0 removes functionality from OpenGL ES 1.0 that is not required for safety-critical applications such as avionics and automotive instrumentation displays to minimize implementation and safety certification costs. Read Release.
Khronos Group Releases OpenVG 1.0 Specification for Accelerated 2D Vector Graphics
August 1, 2005 - Khronos has publicly released the OpenVG 1.0 royalty-free, open standard for low-level 2D vector graphics. OpenVG enables hardware acceleration of libraries such as such as Flash and SVG, enabling high-quality, anti-aliased, scalable 2D vector graphics on embedded and handheld devices with highly interactive performance and low levels of power consumption. Khronos will release details of an OpenVG 1.0 Adopter's Program in the second half of 2005, including a Conformance Testing Program enabling conformant products to use the OpenVG trademark ensuring that conformant OpenVG implementations provide a reliable, cross-platform 2D graphics programming platform. Read Release.
Khronos Announces New OpenSL ES Initiative for Low-level, Cross-platform Sound and Audio Acceleration
August 1, 2005 - Khronos has announced the formation of the new OpenSL ES (Open Sound Library for Embedded Systems) working group to define an open, royalty-free, cross-platform API standard to enable low-level audio hardware acceleration across multiple embedded devices and platforms. The goal of OpenSL ES is to define an application-oriented audio API tuned for embedded systems, standardizing access to hardware acceleration features such as 3D positional audio and MIDI playback. OpenSL ES will provide a fully cross-platform foundation for a wide range of higher-level audio APIs, including JSR-234, and will enable easy porting of game and applications of across multiple platforms and audio devices. Read Release.
COLLADA Joins Khronos Group to Create 3D Authoring Open Standard
August 1, 2005 - The COLLADA project has elected to join Khronos to further their work as an open standard under Khronos' open participation process and royalty-free intellectual property (IP) framework. COLLADA stands for "COLLAborative Design Activity" and defines an XML-based schema to enable 3D authoring applications to freely exchange digital assets without loss of information - enabling multiple software packages to be combined into extremely powerful tool chains. Read Release.
SONY and NVIDIA Become Khronos Promoting Members
August 1, 2005 - NVIDIA and Sony Computer Electronic Inc. (SCEI) have become Khronos Promoting Members, gaining a seat on the Board of Directors that direct Khronos activities. CoreLogic, GiQuila, Nextreaming and Sasken Communication Technologies have become Khronos Contributing Members to participate in the ongoing development of open, royalty-free embedded media API standards. Harman/Becker has become a Khronos Adopter for OpenGL ES 1.0. Read Release.
Khronos Further Expands Membership and Announces New Dates for Developer University Series
May 16, 2005 - Aplix Corporation, Barco, Beatnik, BitFlash, Broadcom, Emuzed, Fraunhofer IIS, MTIS, Packetvideo, Philips Software, Siemens Communications and Skyworks Inc. have become Khronos Contributing Members; Silicon Studio becomes a Khronos Adopter for OpenGL ES 1.0; Khronos Developer's University at Austin Game Developers Conference and Siggraph 2005 BOFs to feature in-depth technology lectures on Khronos APIs. Read Release.
Khronos Group Launches OpenML Open Source SDK
April 18, 2005 The OpenML API is being released as open source on Sourceforge. The OpenML specification provides software and hardware developers with a professional-grade, cross-platform, standardized media framework for the capturing, processing, synchronizing and playing of digital media content - including video, audio and 3D graphics - for authoring and content creation systems. Read Release.
Khronos Reports Dramatic Growth in Asia-Pacific Membership and OpenGL ES Adopters
March 29, 2005 NEC has become a Khronos Contributing Member while 3D Incorporated of Japan; AIT (Alpha Imaging Technology), Brogent, Quanta Computer, MediaTEK and VIA of Taiwan; Gomid and Magic Eyes of Korea; and Tata Elxsi of India have become OpenGL ES 1.0 Adopters, enabling them to test their products for conformance with the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification. Read Release.
Khronos Group Grows to Over 80 Members
March 7, 2005 Atsana, Hantro, Infineon Technologies, QNX, Quantum3D and Sky Mobilemedia have become Khronos Contributing Members to participate in the ongoing development and promotion of open, royalty-free, embedded media acceleration API standards to enable dynamic media hardware and software markets on a wide variety of platforms from cell phones to games consoles to automobiles and aircraft. Read Release.
Khronos Group Announces Freescale Semiconductor Joins as Promoting Member to Participate in the Development of the OpenGL ES and OpenMAX APIs
March 7, 2005 Freescale Semiconductor has joined the Khronos Group as a Promoting Member in order to actively participate in the development and adoption of Khronos open standard OpenGL ES and OpenMAX APIs. Read Release.
Khronos Invites Public Review of New Generation OpenGL ES 1.2 and 2.0 Specifications
February 28, 2005 - Draft specifications of the OpenGL® ES 1.2 and 2.0 API (application programming interface) standards are available, on schedule, for public review by selected applicants. Khronos invites any interested party to execute a Khronos Reviewer's Agreement and provide feedback and guidance to the OpenGL ES Working Group. Read Release.
Khronos Invites Public Review of Draft OpenVG Specification as New Member Zoomon Joins as Contributing Member
December 08, 2004 - The OpenVG™ API (application programming interface) standard is available, on schedule, for public review. Khronos invites any interested party to execute a Khronos Reviewer's Agreement and provide feedback and guidance to the OpenVG Working Group to ensure that this important industry standard meets the needs of the industry. Zoomon has joined the Khronos Group as a Contributing Member in order to actively participate in the development of OpenVG. Read Release.
Khronos Dramatically Expands Membership and Developer Education in Asia Pacific Region
December 02, 2004 - LG Electronics, Mtekvision Co, NC Soft and Nexus Chips Co., Ltd from Korea, Advanced Driver Information Technology Corporation and Digital Media Professionals from Japan and SMEDIA of Taiwan, have become Khronos Contributing Members; Khronos is hosting the first DevU educational session in Seoul on OpenGL ES and OpenVG with demos by SK Telecom, Fathammer, HI Corporation, Reakosys, Samsung and SMEDIA. Read Release.
Khronos Readies OpenGL ES Safety-Critical Profile
October 26, 2004 - Version 1.0 of the Safety-Critical Profile of OpenGL ES has completed external review - and is due for public release before the end of 2005. OpenGL ES SC 1.0 adapts the widely adopted OpenGL ES API for embedded graphics for consumer and industrial applications where reliability and safety certifiability are the primary constraints; and an absolute minimum of 3D code is desired to ease safety certification costs. This applies specifically to the avionics, aerospace and defense communities, and other markets where there is a need for safe, performant software in system designs. Read Release.
Khronos Launches Developer University Lecture Series and OpenGL ES Coding Challenge Contest
August 25, 2004 - The Khronos Developer University (DevU) Lecture Series consists of day-long educational sessions in North America, Europe and Asia. The OpenGL ES Coding Challenge is a content development contest offering a series of prizes and widespread recognition to developers who wish to submit source samples that illustrate the expressive power of OpenGL ES on handheld devices. Read Release.
Hybrid Graphics Gains Khronos Promoter Status
August 25, 2004 - Hybrid Graphics of Helsinki, Finland has been accepted into the governing board of the Khronos Group with a unanimous vote. Hybrid has been a Contributor level member of Khronos since 2002, has participated actively in the forming of the OpenGL ES standard and shipped the first officially conformant software implementation of the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification. Read Release.
Khronos Group Announces the On Time Delivery of the OpenGL ES 1.1 Specification, Available for Free Download
August 9, 2004 - The OpenGL ES 1.1 specification enables new-generation embedded platforms, including cell-phones, with 3D hardware acceleration. OpenGL ES 1.1 emphasizes hardware acceleration of the API and is fully backwards compatible with OpenGL ES 1.0 which focused on enabling software-only implementations Read Release.
Khronos Announces New OpenMAX Open Standard for Enabling Effective Media Acceleration
July 6, 2004 - The new OpenMAX working group will define a royalty-free, cross-platform API that standardizes access to multimedia processing primitives used extensively in extensively in video codecs such as MPEG-4, audio and image codecs and 2D and 3D graphics. Read Release.
Khronos Announces New OpenVG Open Standard for Handheld Vector Graphics Acceleration
July 6, 2004 - The new OpenVG working group will define define a royalty-free, cross-platform API to provide a low-level hardware acceleration interface for vector graphics libraries such as Flash and SVG, primarily on handheld devices that require hardware acceleration to provide fluidly interactive performance at very low power levels. Read Release.
Khronos Significantly Grows Membership and Increases Scope of Media Standards Work
July 6, 2004 - ALT Software, Fujitsu, Nazomi, Oplayo, Reakosys, Samsung Electronics, Sony Computer Entertainment and TKO Software join as Contributors; Hybrid Graphics and Texas Instruments become Promoters; Broadcom, DMP, Institute for Information, and QNX become OpenGL ES 1.0 Adopters; OpenVG and OpenMAX API initiatives launched. Read Release.
Khronos Announces PalmSource Joins as Contributor and Intel as New Adopter
March 22, 2004 PalmSource announces plans to make OpenGL ES available in Palm OS Cobalt; Khronos invites application development community to review , OpenGL ES 1.1 draft specification at GDC. Read Release.
Khronos Member Hybrid Graphics Delivers World’s First OpenGL ES API Software Implementation
February 17, 2004 The Hybrid OpenGL ES API Framework is the first software implementation of this industry-leading API to successfully complete the conformance testing process defined by Khronos, and is the first OpenGL ES software library able to demonstrate conformance with the official open standard for embedded graphics. Read Release.
Leading Mobile Industry Leaders Esmertec, QUALCOMM and Renesas Technology Join Khronos Group
February 17, 2004 Esmertec joins as Promoting Member and selects OpenGL ES as the 3D graphics API for its new wireless component J2ME runtime platform Jcap CLDC. QUALCOMM (CDMA chipsets and software) and Renesas Technology (application processors for the mobile market.) join as Contributing Members. Read Release.
Khronos Group Delivers OpenGL ES 1.0 Adopter's Package & Conformance Tests
January 7, 2004 Futuremark announces new mobile 3D Benchmark using the OpenGL ES API to provide final component of a three-part mobile 3D gaming infrastructure; ATI Technologies' new hardware-accelerated 3D graphics co-processor is the first product to enter the official OpenGL ES 1.0 API Conformance process Read Release.
Khronos Group Grows Significantly with New Members ETRI, Futuremark, NVIDIA, Oki, Secret Level, TAKUMI & WOW4M
January 6, 2004 Press and Developers invited to meet new Khronos Members and see demos of OpenGL ES-based products in action at CES Press Conference on January 8th Read Release.
Khronos Group Launches OpenML Beta SDK
December 9, 2003 Available free-of-charge from the Khronos website; Significant Industry Interest in Alpha SDK with Over 5,000 Downloads. Read Release.
Khronos Welcomes LSI Logic, Toshiba and XCE as Contributor Members
November 24, 2003 Members continue work on beta conformance testing of OpenGL ES; aiming for public adoption in January 2004. Read Release.
OpenML 1.0 SDK alpha 2 release at IBC with over 3700 downloads of the OpenML 1.0 specification
September 10, 2003 - Khronos Group Members to Launch Second Alpha Release of SDK and Demonstrate OpenML Technology at IBC. Read Release.
Sun Microsystems Joins Khronos Group to Support OpenGL ES for Mobile Devices
July 28, 2003 - Sun’s participation will leverage new OpenGL-Java binding initiative to make OpenGL ES a key enabler for small-footprint embedded Java applications. Read Release.
OpenGL ES 1.0 Specification Released by Khronos Group
July 28, 2003 - Official, royalty-free subsets of OpenGL bring advanced graphics to embedded systems; Specification produced by Khronos Group in less than one year now available for free download. Read Release.
Khronos Group Releases OpenML Software Development Kit
July 28, 2003 - First public display of OpenML running on Windows demonstrates how developers are now enabled with device-independent way of controlling media hardware. Read Release.
Leading Mobile Operator SK Telecom Selects OpenGL ES API as Graphics Standard for 3D Mobile Devices and Joins Khronos as Promoter
July 22, 2003 - AromaSoft, ChipWrights, Epson, InterGrafx, SiS, STMicroelectronics, Sunplus, Tao Group and Xi Graphics join as Khronos Contributing Members. Read Release.
Khronos Group Announces OpenGL® ES 1.0 Specification Ready for Final Review and Ratification
April 29, 2003 - Khronos Members TI and Symbian announce OpenGL ES 1.0 based collaboration; Numerous Khronos Members prepare products for early market entry. Read Release.
Khronos Group Moves to Next Stages in Definition of Complementary OpenML and OpenGL ES Specifications
April 2003 - Khronos Welcomes Falanx; MEI/Panasonic, Neomagic, Sanshin and Swell Software as Newest Members; Hardware & Software Vendors Invited to Contribute to Next-Generation OpenML 1.1 Read Release.
Ericsson Mobile Platforms Joins Khronos as the Group Moves Dramatically Forward in Definition and Deployment of OpenGL ES Specification
March 2003 - Khronos Group Welcomes Ericsson, FueTrek and Mitsubishi as Newest Members; Group Invites Key ISVs to Preview the OpenGL ES Specification; Members Demo OpenGL ES Compliant Products at Game Developer Conference Read Release.
Khronos Group Development of OpenGL ES Gains Momentum as New Members Declare Support for OpenGL ES Compliant Products
February 2003 - Fathammer, Hybrid Graphics, MediaQ and Tungsten Graphics join as Khronos members to participate in the further development of open standard APIs for mobile graphics applications. Read Release.
Mobile computing and communication industry companies join Khronos
October 2002 - Bitboys Oy, Superscape, Symbian and Texas Instruments become newest Khronos Members, bringing special expertise in applications and technology for wireless computing devices and mobile phones Read Release.
Digital Media Industry Leaders Join Khronos
September 2002 - 3D4W, ARM, DVS, Motorola, Nokia, PowerVR and RealVision have joined the Khronos Group as Promoting Members, along with group founders and renewing Promoting Members 3Dlabs, ATI, Discreet and SGI.. These companies are working together to develop and deploy OpenML™ and OpenGL® ES: royalty-free, open standard APIs that will enable authoring and playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. New Khronos Group Contributing Level Members are HI Corporation, NVIDIA , Seaweed Systems, Vicarious Visions and Yumetech. Read Release.
Seaweed Systems Becomes First Khronos Contributor for OpenGL ES Standard
July 2002 - Seaweed’s expertise in DO-178B certifiable, small-footprint embedded graphics API subsets will assist in making OpenGL ES ready for safety-critical applications Read Release.
Khronos Group Continues to Gain Momentum in Development and Deployment of OpenML
June 2002 - Newest "Promoter" DVS joins original group founders; Participation agreements publicly available at "Contributor" and "Adopter "levels to enable any company to contribute to the advancement of the next generation of embedded and dynamic media APIs. Read Release.
Khronos Group Releases OpenML 1.0 Specification
August 2001 - Specification now publicly available for royalty-free licensing; Promoting Members expect to announce a wide range of next-generation, OpenML-compatible products; Companies encouraged to enroll in ongoing standardization and deployment initiatives. Read Release.
Khronos Group Completes OpenML 1.0 Specification
April 2001 - Open, cross-platform environment makes creation of dynamic media content faster and easier; Additional initiative will define small footprint graphics and media APIs for embedded devices & appliances. Read Release.
Digital Media Leaders Join To Deliver Integrated Programming Interface
April 2000 - 3dfx, 3Dlabs, ATI, Compaq, Discreet, Evans & Sutherland, IBM, Intel, S3, and SGI Announce Founding of Khronos Group SIG. Read Release.
Hewlett-Packard, Matrox, and Sun Microsystems Join Khronos Special Interest Group
July 2000 - Further Support Growing for OpenML as Integrated Programming Interface. Read Release.
