Standards from Industry consortia

15 standards from industry consortia in StandardsDB, listed alphabetically.

5G NR

ConsortiumNetworking and Telecom2018

Fifth Generation New Radio, frozen in 3GPP Release 15, launched commercially in 2019. It adds spectrum up to millimeter wave...

AV1

ConsortiumMedia and Formats2018

The video codec released by the Alliance for Open Media in 2018, blending Google VP10, Mozilla Daala and Cisco Thor research. It...

Bluetooth

ConsortiumNetworking and Telecom1999

The short range 2.4 gigahertz radio standard begun at Ericsson in 1989 and formalized by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group...

DisplayPort

ConsortiumElectronics and Connectors2006

The packet based video interface of the Video Electronics Standards Association, released in 2006 as an open successor to DVI and...

DVB-T

ConsortiumMedia and Formats1997

The Digital Video Broadcasting project standard for terrestrial digital television, first published in 1997 and launched in the...

EAN and UPC

ConsortiumCodes and Symbols1974

The retail barcodes first scanned on a pack of Wrigley gum in Troy, Ohio in June 1974. The Universal Product Code was chosen by...

GSM

ConsortiumNetworking and Telecom1991

Global System for Mobile Communications, specified by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, launched the digital...

HDMI

ConsortiumElectronics and Connectors2002

High Definition Multimedia Interface, released in December 2002 by founders including Hitachi, Panasonic, Philips, Silicon Image...

LTE

ConsortiumNetworking and Telecom2008

Long Term Evolution, specified in 3GPP Release 8, brought mobile broadband with all IP architecture and orthogonal frequency...

MIDI 1.0

ConsortiumMedia and Formats1983

Musical Instrument Digital Interface, agreed in 1983 through a proposal by Dave Smith and Ikutaro Kakehashi, lets synthesizers...

MIDI 2.0

ConsortiumMedia and Formats2020

The first major MIDI upgrade since 1983, announced in January 2020 by the MIDI Association. Universal MIDI Packets carry 32 bit...

PCI Express

ConsortiumElectronics and Connectors2003

The point to point interconnect PCI-SIG introduced in 2003, replacing shared parallel PCI and AGP slots. Data flows over scalable...

USB

ConsortiumElectronics and Connectors1996

Universal Serial Bus was developed by a group of seven companies including Intel, Compaq, IBM and Microsoft, with version 1.0...

USB Type-C

ConsortiumElectronics and Connectors2014

The 24 pin reversible connector whose specification was published in August 2014. It carries data, video and up to 240 watts of...

UTF-8

ConsortiumCodes and Symbols1993

The variable length Unicode encoding designed by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike in September 1992 and first presented at USENIX in...