Khronos Group continue membership expansion

The Khronos Group have announced that ETRI, Futuremark, NVIDIA, Oki, Secret Level, TAKUMI and WOW4M have all joined as Contributing Members, to work with the fifty other Khronos Group Members in supporting OpenGL ES as the standard graphics API for 3D handheld applications.
The Khronos Group are a consortium focused on the development and deployment of royalty-free, open standard APIs that enable authoring and playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices.
These new members are now enabled to participate in the ongoing development of OpenGL ES, which defines subset profiles of OpenGL and brings advanced 3D graphics to a wide range of embedded systems; and OpenML 1.0 which enables developers to easily integrate video, audio and graphics capabilities into their application suites.
All Khronos Members are empowered to contribute to the development of Khronos specifications, vote at various stages before public availability, and are therefore able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge 3D platforms and applications through early access to specification and conformance testing drafts.
The Khronos Group was founded in January 2000 by a number of leading graphics and digital media companies including 3Dlabs, ATI, Discreet, Evans & Sutherland, Intel, SGI and Sun Microsystems.
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