Ralph Potter of Samsung R&D Institute UK (SRUK), and official representative of Samsung Electronics on the Khronos Board of Directors, was elected as Chair of the Vulkan Working Group.

The Khronos Group, Inc. is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of 170 organizations developing, publishing and maintaining royalty-free interoperability standards for 3D graphics, virtual reality, augmented reality, parallel computation, vision acceleration and machine learning.

Vulkan is a new-generation graphics and compute API for high-efficiency, cross-platform access to graphics processing units (GPUs) and forms the foundation of the graphics stack on the Android platform. As the industry's only open standard modern GPU API, Vulkan is unique in enabling developers to write applications that are portable across a diverse range of platforms, including mobile, games consoles and desktop PCs.

Samsung has been a promoter and adopter of Khronos Standards (e.g. OpenGL ES and Vulkan) since 2011 and successfully contributed to the standards evolution for more than a decade. Mobile eXperience (MX) Business at Samsung Electronics and SRUK have helped guide the development of Vulkan since the start of the APIs development in 2014, and continue to work with our partners to ensure that the API evolves to meet the needs of the Android platform. Ever since the launch of the Galaxy S7 in 2016as the first Vulkan conformant smart phone, Samsung has continued to make significant investments into Vulkan, propagating it throughout our Galaxy product line-up.

Samsung continues to invest in empowering the Vulkan ecosystem, both through providing support to game and application developers and by investing in the supporting ecosystem of open source tools and libraries.

“We are delighted to take on a leadership role at a crucial time when we need to replace existing OpenGL ES with next-generation GPU-based 3D API standard” said Daniel Park, Head of the Open Source Group at Samsung Research. “With this opportunity, Samsung Electronics will also promote and support activities in this field.”

Ralph Potter has been Samsung’s Khronos representative since 2020 and has shown passion and dedication in not only supporting Samsung’s interests in the group, but also acting as a caretaker of the wider graphics ecosystem and ensuring that Vulkan helps push the graphics industry forward making way for new innovation and new hardware to meet the demands of the future.