Khronos now over seventy Members strong; hosting Educational Developer Sessions in Seoul including speakers from Samsung and SK Telecom
December 2, 2004 – Clearlake Park, California – The Khronos™ Group is very pleased to announce that 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 to participate in the ongoing development and promotion of open, royalty-free embedded media API standards.
Khronos is also pleased to host a speaking session at COEX, Seoul on December 8, 2004.
Developers and press are invited to attend a “Khronos DevU” educational session to hear lectures on OpenGL ES and OpenVG and to see demos by Member companies SK Telecom, Fathammer, HI Corporation, Reakosys, Samsung and SMEDIA. Descriptions of session content available at: http://www.khronos.org/devu/locations/seoul2004.html. The event is free of charge and will be held 9:00 – 17:00 Wednesday, December 8, 2004 at the COEX, World Trade Center – Room #203. For a map to the event please go to http://www.coex.co.kr/English/.
“The Khronos Group is focused on the creation of open standard, royalty- free multi-media APIs, and the OpenVG working group is leading the standardization effort of vector graphics acceleration to help create dynamic and rich user interfaces and real- time vector graphics on small digital media appliances, as well as Digital TVs and Set-top boxes,” said Dr. Kil-Su Eo, Vice President of Digital Media division at Samsung Electronics. “As a member of the OpenVG working group, Samsung is glad to participate at Khronos Developer University in Seoul, and we hope that this event can help to educate the development community desires for advanced and dynamic user interfaces and rich graphic content.”
“As a Promoting Member of the Khronos Group, SK Telecom is pleased to present the SKT GIGA platform at Khronos Developer University in Seoul, and to discuss our product development on the OpenGL ES platform,” said Won Hee Sull, Vice President of Platform R&D Center at SK Telecom. “We are also happy to include in our presentation our High Level Engine Partners: Gomid, Reakosys, HI and Fathammer. Like SK Telecom, they are also pioneers in advanced mobile telecommunication technologies and have selected OpenGL ES their standard graphics API for 3D handheld applications.”
“Fathammer is pleased to appear at Khronos DevU on December 8 2005 with our development partner NetDol to discuss how to convert mobile 3D games from the PC/Arcade platform to the Mobile platform, and to demonstrate OpenGL ES 1.0 running on an Intel-based smart phone,” said John Lee, Director of APAC Sales & Marketing, Fathammer.
“LG Electronics is a strong proponent of industry standards and is active on a number of standardization committees,” says Jin Sung Choi, vice president, Mobile Communication Technology Research Lab, LG Electronics. “The Khronos Group will accelerate the rate of industry innovation benefiting solution vendors, handset manufacturers, and operators as well as consumers. As a member of Khronos, we are looking forward to acquiring new industry leading technologies through this opportunity.”
“NCsoft Corporation has selected the OpenGL ES API in order to take leadership in the field of mobile game development and the online MMORPG industry,” said Hyungjip Kim, vice president of Game Development Unit at NCsoft Corporation. “We will spare no effort to take on new challenges and opportunities in developing 3D online games in the mobile market, and our new Khronos Membership reflects our commitment to the advancement of OpenGL ES.”
“SMEDIA is glad to join the Khronos Group and to lecture on this important new graphic specification, as we feel OpenGL ES is a large contributor to driving quality 3D graphics into the mobile handset market,” said Mr. HY Lin, General Manager of SMEDIA. “SMEDIA will continue to support OpenGL ES across our co-processor line of products and we are working with a wide range of third parties to deliver middleware and engine solutions.”
About Khronos
The Khronos Group is a member-funded industry consortium focused on the creation of open standard APIs such as OpenGL® ES, OpenMAX™, OpenML™ and OpenVG™, to enable the creation and playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices, including 3D graphics on mobile phones. All Khronos members are able to contribute to the development of Khronos API specifications, vote at various stages before public release, and are able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge media platforms and applications by having early access to specification drafts and conformance tests. Please go to www.khronos.org for more information.
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