Type Consortium President Neil Trevett | Website www.khronos.org Founded 2000 | |
Formation 2000; 17 years ago (2000) Purpose 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, United States Motto Open standards for graphics, media and parallel computation Similar HSA Foundation, Linux Foundation, Association for Computin Profiles |
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The Khronos Group, Inc. is an American non-profit member-funded industry consortium based in Beaverton, Oregon, focused on the creation of open standard, royalty-free application programming interfaces (APIs) for authoring and accelerated playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. Khronos members may contribute to the development of Khronos API specifications, vote at various stages before public deployment, and accelerate delivery of their platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests.
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On 31 July 2006, it was announced at SIGGRAPH that control of the OpenGL specification would be passed to the group.
History
The Khronos Group was founded in 2000 by companies including ATI Technologies, Discreet, Evans & Sutherland, Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, Silicon Graphics (SGI), and Sun Microsystems. It now has roughly 120 member companies, over 30 adopters, and 24 conforming members. Its president is Neil Trevett.
Working groups
Members
Khronos Group divides its members followingly:
Current members (as of 11 November 2016) are (highlights):
Past members
Khronos Group maintains current lists of its members