ATI joins OpenGL Architecture Review Board

ATI joins OpenGL Architecture Review Board is today’s business-side update, the sort of suit-and-spreadsheet news that still decides what games actually reach players.

The useful part: The Board, comprised of the key industry players who have helped develop the API, develops standards and oversees the certification process for hardware and software vendors designing products to work on OpenGL. ATI began developing hardware and software products that support OpenGL in 1995. More recently, OpenGL was a major factor in the development of the RAGE 128 and the RAGE 128 Pro, the latest of the RAGE family of graphics accelerators. File it under the usual 1999 PC pile: interesting, crowded, and probably fighting five other releases for attention.