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Khronos Group Releases Specifications for Vulkan 1.1
The Khronos Group has announced the release of Vulkan 1.1 and SPIR-V 1.3 specifications. This comes almost exactly 2 years after Vulkan 1.0.
It was February 2016 when the Khronos Group released the specs for version 1.0 of Vulkan. The goal was to help developers utilize multiple core processors better. This can mean a huge improvement as high-end smartphones are shipping with 8 CPU cores these days. As the successor to OpenGL, it has slowly made its way into various applications and game engines as well. Today, the Khronos Group announced the release of Vulkan 1.1 and SPIR-V 1.3 specifications.
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After missing their goal of releasing the initial Vulkan API specifications by the end of 2015, the Khronos group has now completed the 1.0 release of the API. By now most of our readers are also aware that Android is one of the supported platforms. But what does this mean for developers and users?