Khronos Group ships tools bringing Vulkan graphics API to iOS and MacOS

The Khronos Group has released new open source tools that allows the Vulkan API, a 3D graphics API, to work on iOS and macOS, a move that can make it easier for developers to port games to Apple's hardware from other platforms, while still taking advantage of technologies like Apple's Metal graphics API.

Malcolm Owen 8 years ago 4

3rd-party Vulkan API could simplify porting graphics-intensive games to Metal on macOS, iOS

The new MoltenVK developer API aims to ease porting of games to Apple hardware, and its native support of Metal graphics, by by bringing the cross-platform Vulkan 3D graphics API to both iOS and macOS.

Mike Wuerthele 9 years ago 3

Intel working on OpenCL-capable Ivy Bridge chips bound for Apple's MacBook Air

Apple's MacBook Air may see an additional performance boost next year with Intel's next-generation Ivy Bridge processors, which, according to a new report, will add support for the OpenCL technology.

Josh Ong 14 years ago 26

OpenGL 4.1 specification released and ready for use by Apple

The Knronos Group released its latest OpenGL 4.1 specification today at the SIGGRAPH conference, introducing tighter integration with mobile OpenGL ES and OpenCL APIs and expanding its core capabilities to unlock graphics performance on both Macs and PCs and on iPhones and other mobile devices.

Daniel Eran Dilger 15 years ago 20

Support for OpenGL 3.0 added in beta build of Mac OS X 10.6.3

An early beta of the latest maintenance and security update to Apple's Snow Leopard operating system has added significant support for the OpenGL 3.0 graphical application programming interface.

Sam Oliver 16 years ago 69

Countering rumor says Apple and NVIDIA "doing just fine"

Just as soon as one rumor has suggested trouble in the relationship between Apple and NVIDIA, a conflicting report now claims that the two are still on good terms.

Katie Marsal 16 years ago 29

Apple sees brief iPhone 3GS shortages; NVIDIA intros CS4 plugins

Apple nearly saw a repeat of last year's sellouts on the weekend with widespread, but brief, iPhone 3GS shortages at many of its US retail stores. Also, NVIDIA has launched plugins that let Macs with newer video cards dramatically speed up tasks in Adobe's Creative Suite 4.

Katie Marsal 16 years ago 117

NVIDIA prepping GeForce GTX 285 for Mac Pro

Owners of Apple's Mac Pro workstations will have a second, high-end home video card option within weeks, as NVIDIA is planning to release a version of its GeForce GTX 285 chipset specifically for Macs.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 90

New PowerVR chip may give Apple's future iPhone HD, OpenCL

Hidden among the many announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is a new PowerVR mobile graphics chip that could power advanced 3D, HD video and even general computing on an eventual generation of iPhones.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 22

Future iPhones to wield OpenCL acceleration

Imagination Technologies has posted a series of job openings for OpenCL engineers, indicating that the open, general purpose GPU parallelism technology Apple spearheaded for use in Mac OS X Snow Leopard is destined to also play a significant role in boosting embedded graphics and video acceleration on the company's future handheld products.

Prince McLean 17 years ago 72

Apple to showcase Snow Leopard at Macworld - report

Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller will use a portion of his keynote address at next month's Macworld Expo to show off a more refined version of the company's upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system, according to UK's Guardian.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 90

Apple finally outed as mysterious PowerVR licensee

New evidence that Apple is the mysterious licensee of Imagination Technologies Group's PowerVR mobile graphics technology broke today, when the company publicly announced that Apple has subscribed to 8 million new shares of IMG, giving the iPhone maker a 3% stake in the firm. A press release also revealed Apple to be a licensee of Imagination's technology.

Prince McLean 17 years ago 28

OpenCL and OpenGL take on DirectX

The broad industry support Apple is building around OpenCL will help increase the critical mass behind OpenGL, the 2D and 3D graphics language Apple uses extensively in Mac OS X.

Prince McLean 17 years ago 73

OpenCL ties Apple to NVIDIA

Apple's push to accelerate Mac performance in innovative ways is likely to bind the company even closer to NVIDIA's GPUs, which already support the OpenCL technology Apple will be releasing in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Prince McLean 17 years ago 35

NVIDIA pioneering OpenCL support on top of CUDA

NVIDIA, Apple's new MacBook chipset partner, is working hard to provide seamless support for OpenCL, the cross platform API Apple developed for Snow Leopard to create a vendor neutral, open specification for parallel programming across any compliant GPU.

Prince McLean 17 years ago 8

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