Apple, Dell, Google and Others Join the Khronos Group; Significant New Membership Reinforces Khronos' Position as the Preeminent Body Creating Open Standards for the Authoring and Acceleration of Dynamic Media.BOSTON -- The Khronos(TM) Group is pleased to announce that Acrodea, Apple, DAZ3D, Dell, Google, Gremedy, Codeplay, and S3 Graphics have joined well over one hundred existing Khronos Group This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Members to define open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced for the authoring and acceleration of dynamic media on platforms ranging from embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. such as mobile phones to high-performance desktop and workstation systems. This significant growth in membership, together with the announcement made today that the OpenGL ARB has voted to bring control of the OpenGL standard under Khronos, reinforces Khronos' position as the preeminent body creating open, royalty-free standards for the authoring and acceleration of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms. Khronos has extensive membership from all aspects of the industry including CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and media silicon providers, operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. vendors, system and handset OEMS OEMS Office of Emergency Medical Services (Massachusetts government) OEMS Oracle Enterprise Messaging Service OEMS Order Entry Management System , middleware vendors, games and application developers and wireless carriers. Any interested company may join Khronos for just $5,000 a year -- further details about joining Khronos at: http://www.khronos.org/members/. "Khronos has been leading the charge in media standards for the mobile industry for over four years, and now with this increased membership and the integration of the OpenGL ARB, Khronos has truly become the place to be if your company has any interest in open standards for dynamic media and graphics on any platform," said Dr. Jon Peddie, president of the Tiburon CA based market research firm Jon Peddie Research. "The lines continue to blur between different classes of devices -- and so it is crucial to have a single body that is able to drive a coherent set of cross-platform standards to create new market opportunities for the entire graphics and media industry." "Codeplay has long focused on optimizing compilers to create the best user experience for graphical applications; and we are delighted to now be a Contributing Member of Khronos," said Andrew Richards Andrew Richards is Professor of Political Science at the Juan March Institute. He obtained his doctorate at Princeton University, where he taught European politics and Soviet/Russian politics and has been Visiting Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College, , managing director and chief software architect at Codeplay. "It will be a privilege to work alongside other industry leaders in what is the pre-eminent standards setting body for the embedded graphics software world." "Graphic Remedy has joined the Khronos Group to help pushing the OpenGL and OpenGL ES OpenGL ES (OpenGL for Embedded Systems) is a subset of the OpenGL 3D graphics API designed for embedded devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, and video game consoles. standards forward, making them the dominant Graphic APIs. We believe that our product offering will leverage the Khronos APIs ecosystem by adding it our powerful debugging and profiling tools. As a contributor member, we will advance these open standard APIs to include debugging and profiling support." "S3 Graphics is pleased to join Khronos as a Contributor member participating in the development process for OpenGL and OpenGL ES specifications and related media APIs," said Iming Pai, vice president of software engineering at S3 Graphics. "S3 Graphics believes that open APIs like OpenGL and OpenGL ES are crucial to the rapid distribution of advanced GPU GPU: see secret police. (Graphics Processing Unit) A specialized logic chip devoted to rendering 2D or 3D images. Display adapters contain one or more GPUs for fast graphics rendering. technologies across a wide variety of platforms. We are fully committed (Law) committed to prison for trial, in distinction from being detained for examination. See also: Fully to supporting these open APIs on S3 Graphics' 3D graphics chips." "We welcome all our new members as their expertise and market presence ensures that Khronos can accurately create standards that meet the needs of the entire industry," said Neil Trevett Neil Trevett is currently Vice President of Embedded Content at NVIDIA. He is responsible for enabling and encouraging compelling applications on non-PC platforms, including cell phones and automobiles. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Mr. , president of the Khronos Group and vice president of embedded content at NVIDIA. "Khronos has now has the widespread industry participation needed to effectively leverage synergies between established and emerging media platforms -- and so create new market opportunities for both." See Khronos at SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics, www.siggraph.org) The arm of the ACM that specializes in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Providing publications, workshops and conferences, it has served technicians and researchers as well as the artist and business community 2006, Boston, July 31st to August 4th 2006 Any members of the press and industry are invited to visit the Khronos Booth #611 to see demonstrations by Khronos Group members and to attend any Khronos-sponsored events: --Tech Talk: OpenGL ES, OpenVG & OpenKODE - Wednesday 2nd August 10AM-3:30PM, Room 206A --OpenGL BOF - Wednesday 2nd August 4-6PM Room 206A --COLLADA BOF & Social Event - Wednesday 2nd August 6-8PM Room 206A --OpenGL ES BOF - Thursday 3rd August 10AM-12PM Room 251 --Tech Talk: COLLADA COLLADA Collaborative Design Activity - Thursday 3rd August 12-2PM Room 251 More details at http://www.khronos.org/news/events/detail/siggraph_2006 About Khronos The Khronos Group is a member-funded industry consortium focused on the creation of open standards such as OpenKODE(TM), OpenGL(R) ES, OpenMAX(TM), OpenVG(TM), OpenSL ES(TM), OpenML(TM) and COLLADA(TM) to enable the authoring and acceleration of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. All Khronos members are able to contribute to the development of Khronos specifications, are empowered to vote at various stages before public deployment, and are able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge media platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests. Please go to www.khronos.org for more information. Khronos, OpenKODE, OpenVG, OpenMAX and OpenSL ES are trademarks of the Khronos Group Inc. COLLADA is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. used by permission by Khronos. OpenGL and OpenML are registered trademarks and the OpenGL ES logo is a trademark of Silicon Graphics Inc. used by permission by Khronos. All other product names, trademarks, and/or company names are used solely for identification and belong to their respective owners. |
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