| Khronos Group | |
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| Motto | Open standards for graphics, media and parallel computation |
| Formation | 2000 |
| Type | Consortium |
| Purpose/focus | Creating open standards to enable the authoring and acceleration of graphics, rich media and parallel computation on a wide variety of platforms and devices |
| Headquarters | Beaverton, Oregon, USA |
| Location | 15500 SW Jay Street #45043, Beaverton, Oregon 97006 USA |
| Coordinates | 45.508407,-122.834305 |
| Region served | Worldwide |
| President | Neil Trevett |
| Website | www.khronos.org |
The Khronos Group is a not-for-profit member-funded industry consortium based in Beaverton, Oregon, focused on the creation of open standard, royalty-free APIs to enable the authoring and accelerated playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. All Khronos members are able to contribute to the development of Khronos API specifications, are empowered to vote at various stages before public deployment, and are able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge 3D platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests.
On the 31st July, 2006 it was announced at SIGGRAPH that control of the OpenGL specification would be passed to the group.[1][2]
An article at SPIE Electronic Imaging 2006 Multimedia on Mobile Devices gives an overview of many mobile APIs, mostly from Khronos.[3]
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The Khronos Group was founded in 2000 by a number of media centric companies, including ATI Technologies, Discreet, Evans & Sutherland, Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, Silicon Graphics (SGI), and Sun Microsystems. Today the Khronos Group has roughly 100 member companies, over 30 adopters, and twenty-four conforming members.[4] Neil Trevett is currently the President of the Khronos Group.
In 2006, some of the OpenGL ARB Working Group members were:
For a complete and updated list of the project's members see the promoters, contributors and academics member list of the Khronos Group.
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