Friday, 4 August 2006

Apple, Dell and Google Join Khronos Group

Apple, Dell and Google have joined the Khronos Group, an organisation that develops and oversees the OpenGL graphics standard. Khronos Group is an organization that includes over 100 companies that are working together to define open standards for dynamic media on devices ranging from cell phones to computers.

"The lines continue to blur between different classes of devices," said Dr. Jon Peddie, president of market research firm Jon Peddie Research, "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."


Khronos said that the 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 and media silicon providers, operating system vendors, system and handset OEMS, middleware vendors, games and application developers and wireless carriers.

For Apple joining Khronos brings a huge advantage in developing its next generation iPod and future products. Earlier in July, DailyTech reported that NVIDIA allegedly entered into an agreement with Apple to work on next generation iPod devices.