An international IT industry consortium is inviting Chinese companies to participate in the development of industrial standards during its recent tour to Beijing and Shanghai.

"We recognize China as a key player in the global mobile industry and therefore have prioritized the participation of the Chinese technology industry to contribute to the development of mobile acceleration standards," said Neil Trevett, president of Khronos and vice-president of mobile content at NVIDIA at a press conference in Beijing March 13.

The Khronos Group creates open standards to enable the authoring and acceleration of graphics, parallel computing, dynamic media and sensor processing on a wide variety of platforms and devices.

All Khronos members are able to contribute to the development of Khronos specifications, are empowered to vote at various stages before public deployment, and are able to accelerate the delivery of their media platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests.

Khronos has 15 active standards and over 100 international member companies. However, none of them are a Chinese company.

"We will spend more time to communicate with leading Chinese companies and decision makers to make them know better about us," said Trevett, adding that Khronos has made engaging the participation of Chinese industry a priority and has committed significant financial and staffing resources to Chinese activities.

Trevett believes Chinese companies will benefit significantly from Khronos participation and standards development will, in return, reflect Chinese industry requirements and priorities.

Khronos has a series of free training and outreach events here in China this week, where any interested companies, universities or students are welcome to attend a day of lectures by Khronos technology experts. The sessions feature an industry analysis by Dr Jon Peddie, President of JPR, a leading graphics consultancy, and a panel session conducted by Kathleen Maher, senior analyst at JPR.