The Khronos™ Group today announced the ratification and public release of the SPIR™ 2.0 provisional specification that provides a non-source encoding, and binary level portability, for OpenCL™ 2.0 device programs.  SPIR (Standard Portable Intermediate Representation) is the industry's first open, cross-platform Intermediate Representation standard for portable heterogeneous parallel computing and is based on LLVM IR. SPIR enables developers to avoid exposing sensitive kernel source and enables a diversity of language front-ends to easily target OpenCL platforms and devices in addition to OpenCL C.

The Khronos™ Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies, today announced growing industry support for the OpenGL® family of 3D standards that are advancing the visual experience for more than two billion mobile devices and PCs sold each year. OpenGL, OpenGL ES™ and WebGL™ are the world’s most widely deployed APIs that between them provide portable access to graphics and compute capabilities across multiple platforms, including Android, iOS, Linux, OS X, Windows and the Web.