Mantle, Kronos Group

For its part, AMD isn't opposed to addressing some of those political hurdles. Guennadi Riguer said the company is "fairly open to working with other [independent hardware vendors]," and he reiterated that Mantle has been "purposely structured . . . in such a way that it's as clean as possible, as transferable to other vendors as possible." When asked if AMD would be amenable to making Mantle an open API overseen by the Khronos Group—the same folks who look after OpenGL—he replied, "I don't see why not." At this point, Jurjen Katsman chimed in, saying that AMD shouldn't hand Mantle to Khronos right away, because it's "not done."