Just four and a half months after releasing the OpenGL 4 specification, the Khronos Group has released the final version of the OpenGL 4.1 specification. OpenGL 4.0 brought feature parity with ...

Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are particularly problematiccomponents in embedded systems, especially when used for safetycritical systems where design verification and certification isrequired.

OpenGL is one of those things that has made the iPhone one of the strongest competitors for the mobile gaming market. The platform offers developers a robust way to program 3D applications, especially ...

How about that for a headline? News from SGI late last week that SGI is making changes to the terms under which it is releasing some of its graphics IP: As software developers the world over prepare ...

Valve has released its 'ToGL' Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer software. Previously used in its DOTA2 game, it is thought that Valve's move will make it easy for other developers to port games ...

Valve has made Dota 2's Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer open source. This is the piece of code that allows Valve to take a standard DirectX Windows game that uses the Source engine (Dota 2, Team ...

Most of the focus at Nvidia's Games Developers Conference (GDC) event has been focused on DirectX, but a rare three-way presentation between Nvidia, Intel, and AMD has emphasized that Microsoft's API ...

id Software co-founder John Carmack built his popular game engines around the cross-platform OpenGL API. It therefore may be a surprise to learn that he considers Microsoft's DirectX to be a superior ...

Venerable resource MacInTouch has already obtained the truly low-end Mac mini running the Intel Core Solo. And the news isn't all that bad. Under Cinebench, the gold standard for Mac graphics ...

OpenGL, formally known as the Open Graphics Library, allows applications like Minecraft to take full advantage of the GPU (Graphics processing unit) on a machine. Minecraft is just one of the ...