Khronos Group


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 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.
On July 31, 2006, it was announced at SIGGRAPH that control of the OpenGL specification would be passed from the OpenGL Architecture Review Board to the group.

History

The Khronos Group was founded in 2000 by companies including ATI Technologies, Discreet, Evans & Sutherland, Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, Silicon Graphics, and Sun Microsystems. It now has over 140 member companies, over 30 adopters, and 24 conforming members. Its president is Neil Trevett.

Working groups

Active Standards

Khronos Group divides its members followingly:
Current members as of August 2, 2019, are:

Promoter members

Contributor members

Associate members

Academic members

Individual Contributors

Khronos Group maintains current lists of its members on its website.