Wednesday June 24th, 2009
Further uniting the Internet with mobile phones and computers, Intel Corporation and Nokia today announced a long-term relationship to develop a new class of Intel® Architecture-based mobile computing device and chipset architectures which will combine the performance of powerful computers with high-bandwidth mobile broadband communications and ubiquitous Internet connectivity.
Tuesday June 23rd, 2009
ALT Software, the leading provider of advanced graphics software for safety-critical embedded systems, today announced its commitment to deliver DO-178B certifiable OpenGL drivers for the ATI Radeon™ E4690, AMD’s (NYSE: AMD) newest high performance embedded graphics accelerator. As part of its commitment to AMD’s Embedded GPU roadmap, ALT Software will be delivering both OpenGL SC (Safety Critical) and OpenGL ES 2.0 support for the ATI Radeon E4690.
Monday June 08th, 2009
Sunnyvale, CA, June 8, 2009—(PR Newswire)—Vivante Corporation today announced the company has expanded to 15 the number of licensees for its graphics processing unit (GPU) cores. Vivante licensees, which include both established and emerging fabless semiconductor leaders, have taped out more…
Friday May 29th, 2009
Oslo, Norway — May 29, 2009 Opera Software today announced that it has joined the Khronos Group to support the evolution of open standards that enable the authoring and acceleration of 3D graphics, games and media on a wide variety of…
Friday May 22nd, 2009
SUNNYVALE, CA, May 22, 2009–Vivante Corporation announced today that a Taiwanese developer of high quality multimedia chipsets for mobile applications and a trusted supplier to global first-tier handset makers has added silicon proven Vivante scalable 2D and 3D graphics solutions to…
Tuesday May 19th, 2009
Incoras Solutions’ MediaDesigner™ …jump-start the adoption process; build, test and deploy OpenMAX applications right out of the box!
Tuesday March 24th, 2009
The Khronos™ Group is pleased to announce that it has today publicly released the OpenSL ES™ 1.0 specification, a royalty-free, cross-platform C-language API for high-performance, low-latency audio functionality on mobile and embedded devices. The OpenSL ES standard simplifies deployment of hardware and software audio capabilities across any platform or operating system and provides broad audio portability for application developers.
Tuesday March 24th, 2009
The Khronos™ Group announced today it has publicly released the OpenGL® 3.1 specification that modernizes and streamlines the cross-platform, royalty-free API for 3D graphics. OpenGL 3.1 includes GLSL™ 1.40, a new version of the OpenGL shading language, and provides enhanced access to the latest generation of programmable graphics hardware through improved programmability, more efficient vertex processing, expanded texturing functionality and increased buffer management flexibility.
Tuesday March 24th, 2009
The Khronos™ Group today announced an initiative to create an open, royalty-free standard for bringing accelerated 3D graphics to the Web. In response to a proposal from Mozilla, Khronos has created an ‘Accelerated 3D on Web’ working group that Mozilla has offered to chair.
Tuesday December 16th, 2008
Movial Joins the Khronos Group and Contributes Multimedia Enabling Source Code to Mobile Linux Community. Movial Octopus Media Engine Makes Integration of Multimedia into Mobile Applications Easy - Acts as a Central Point of Contact for All Multimedia Use Cases
Monday December 08th, 2008
New version of vector graphics API adds accelerated text and Adobe Flash format rendering; Full conformance tests and open source implementation also available
Monday December 08th, 2008
New industry standard unleashes the vast computing power of modern processors
Friday September 19th, 2008
Free Software Foundation and Khronos Group Both Herald New License of Industry Standard Graphics Software SGI today announced it is releasing a new version of the SGI Free Software License B.
Monday August 18th, 2008
Imagination Technologies reports that POWERVR SGX is the world’s first 3D graphics acceleration solution to achieve conformance on commercially available production silicon for all of the Khronos™ mobile 2D and 3D graphics APIs which includes OpenGL® ES 2.0, OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenVG™ 1.0.
Monday August 11th, 2008
Strong industry support for state-of-the-art OpenGL 3.0 API and GLSL 1.30 shading language specifications on all major platforms; OpenGL evolutionary model to accelerate development of standard; Interoperability with OpenCL being defined
Friday August 08th, 2008
Digia joins the Khronos Group promoting open standards for hardware accelerated mobile graphics and multimedia. The membership provides access to all Khronos standards including non-public member data and work in progress. Digia also gains the right to participate the standardization work.
Tuesday August 05th, 2008
COLLADA expands into new markets and widens adoption among leading content-creation software packages; Support for COLLADA 1.4 continues in parallel with COLLADA 1.5 development
Monday June 16th, 2008
Call for industry participation to create open, royalty-free standard for programming parallel computing across GPUs and CPUs
Friday March 28th, 2008
Software Technology Leader Adds A New Voice To The Creation Of Open Standards For The Authoring And Acceleration Of Dynamic Media
Sunday February 10th, 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.
Tuesday October 02nd, 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.
Tuesday August 07th, 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.
Tuesday August 07th, 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
Tuesday August 07th, 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.
Tuesday May 22nd, 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.
Tuesday April 17th, 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.
Wednesday March 07th, 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.
Monday March 05th, 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.
Monday March 05th, 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.
Monday February 12th, 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.
Monday February 12th, 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.
Tuesday December 12th, 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.
Wednesday August 02nd, 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.
Tuesday August 01st, 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.
Monday July 31st, 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.
Monday July 31st, 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.
Tuesday June 27th, 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.
Thursday June 22nd, 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.
Wednesday March 22nd, 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.
Wednesday March 22nd, 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.
Wednesday March 22nd, 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.
Sunday February 12th, 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.
