The Khronos Group
Consumer
Khronos Group Releases Vulkan Ray Tracing - News
March 17, 2020The Khronos Group, an open consortium of companies creating advanced interoperability standards, announced the ratification and public release of the Vulkan Ray Tracing provisional extensions.
Open Source
Khronos and Smithsonian Collaborate to Diffuse Knowledge for Education, Research, and Creative Use - Press Release
March 05, 2020With a new collaborative agreement, the organizations will use the glTF 3D asset standard to share 2.8M 2D images and 3D models into the public domain
Software & OS
Vulkan 1.2 GPU Acceleration Spec Released by Khronos Group - News
January 23, 202023 API extensions in new version of the core specification improve GPU functionality and performance.
Open Source
OpenVX 1.3 Adds Feature Sets for Optimized AI & Vision Processing - News
October 22, 2019Khronos has also released an open source implementation of OpenVX 1.3 for the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, code samples, and conformance test suite.
Processing
Khronos Group Begins Work on a New Standards Initiative to Bring Vulkan GPU Acceleration to Safety Critical Industries - Press Release
February 25, 2019All companies welcome to join Khronos and participate in creating a GPU acceleration API to ease safety certification in automotive, avionics and other industries
Open Source
Khronos Calls for Industry Feedback on Potential New Standard for Heterogeneous Communications - News
January 16, 2019The Takyon API, proposed by Abaco Systems, is a proposal to unify low-level point-to-point communication and signaling
Open Source
The Khronos Group Releases Finalized SYCL 1.2.1 - Other
December 07, 2017Enhanced support for machine learning, TensorFlow acceleration, and C++17 alignment