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Khronos wins support from Google Android for its Vulkan graphics API

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Outstanding cross-platform graphics could soon be coming in the future for all gaming devices.

The Khronos Group, an open consortium of hardware and software companies focused on improving graphics, announced today that Google’s Android operating system is the latest platform to embrace the upcoming Vulkan applications programming interface (API). Vulkan is a unified 3D graphics specification that will bring high-end graphics to games that can easily run across platforms like the PC, automobiles, consumer electronics, consoles, and mobile devices.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.