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MIPI Alliance changed the game for integrating cameras and other sensors into mobile devices when it recently introduced CCS Static Data as part of the new MIPI Camera Command Set v1.1 (MIPI CCSSM v1.1) specification. Now CCS Tools is making this...
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Brad Biddle, MIPI Counsel: 12 November 2020
MIPI Alliance periodically receives questions about how its legal policies apply in different circumstances. This post addresses questions we’ve received about how our policies apply to semiconductor IP vendors. It's also designed to explain the existing...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 10 November 2020
In the closing session of MIPI DevCon 2020, a panel of IoT experts convened to assess the current state of the “Internet of Things” and answer fundamental questions such as, “Is the IoT transitioning from hype to reality?”
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 16 October 2020
Next week, MIPI Debug Working Group Chair Enrico Carrieri and working group member Matthew Schnoor will take an in-depth look at the recently released MIPI Debug for I3CSM v1.0, which allows system designers to dynamically debug and test application...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 14 October 2020
Update: MIPI A-PHY was adopted as an IEEE standard in June 2021 and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
The MIPI A-PHYSM v1.0 specification, which has been available to MIPI Alliance members since September 2020, is now positioned for wider availability...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 9 October 2020
MIPI Alliance will be bringing technical details on the new MIPI A-PHY℠ and MIPI Automotive SerDes Solutions (MASS℠) to two automotive conferences in the coming weeks. The presentations, at the Automotive SerDes Conference and AutoSens Detroit Edition,...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 6 October 2020
MIPI Alliance would like to welcome 18 companies that joined the Alliance or upgraded their membership from 1 July to 30 September 2020. We look forward to working with these companies joining the 300+ MIPI Alliance members worldwide developing and...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 1 October 2020
The smaller and more power-constrained systems being developed today for the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile devices, automotive and other use cases demonstrate the value of low-bandwidth interfaces for debug and trace. At the same time, the flexibility...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 28 September 2020
Read the new white paper, “MIPI Alliance: Enabling the IoT Opportunity" »
Over the past decade, MIPI specifications have become firmly rooted into the core of smartphones, connecting the sensors, cameras, displays, radios and other components that are...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 25 September 2020
Not only did MIPI DevCon 2020 draw a global audience of nearly 350 attendees on 22-23 September, but the conference presentations and member demos will continue to offer developers and implementers a wealth of resources long after the live event. Whether...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 17 September 2020
Thank you! It’s still surprising to me that I’ve been involved with MIPI...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 15 September 2020
Update: MIPI A-PHY was adopted as an IEEE standard in June 2021 and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
Innovations in automotive safety, automation and connectivity, including advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), comprehensive in-vehicle...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 11 September 2020
From 5G to automotive to IoT, the session topics on the MIPI DevCon 2020 Agenda span a range of interests in mobile and beyond. An impressive lineup of speakers – industry experts, MIPI working group leaders and implementers of MIPI specifications – will...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 9 September 2020
Advanced high-resolution cameras and displays are at the core of many new electronic devices, enabling continuously more sophisticated vision-based services and enhanced user experiences. Integrated cameras and displays can now be found in a wide array...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 31 August 2020
MIPI Alliance members work diligently to develop and release new versions of interface specifications for mobile and mobile-influenced devices to anticipate new applications and market needs. Recently MIPI released MIPI RFFE v3.0SM and completed...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 17 August 2020
Thank you very much. It's an honor to be recognized.
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Lattice Semiconductor: 12 August 2020
As designers are challenged to integrate an increasing number of sensors in products, aggregating different data streams from dissimilar sensors (e.g., imaging cameras, lidar, radar) is the new normal for input/output-(I/O) constrained application...
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Rajesh Bhaskar, MIPI-JEDEC Liaison for I3C/JESD403, and Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation: 29 July 2020
JEDEC Solid State Technology Association (JEDEC) and MIPI Alliance have enjoyed a long liaison relationship of collaboration, as the two organizations serve some similar but also different applications and ecosystems. When we work together closely—as in...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 2 July 2020
MIPI Alliance would like to welcome 14 companies that joined the Alliance or upgraded their membership from 1 April to 30 June 2020. We look forward to working with these companies joining the 300+ MIPI Alliance members worldwide developing and...
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The word is out about MIPI A-PHY℠ completing development and moving into the adoption process, and MIPI invites you to learn more about the much-anticipated v1.0 at its upcoming webinar, MIPI A-PHY: The Cornerstone of a MIPI Automotive System Solution.
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Automotive engineers continue to develop technologies for safer, more connected and fully autonomous vehicles. And to enable these technologies, OEMs and suppliers are working toward future models with more cameras and sensors, more informative displays...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 2 June 2020
MIPI Alliance’s second virtual member meeting of 2020 launched today with a special session to update participants on Alliance initiatives, technical milestones, marketing activities and strategic priorities, as well as to recognize MIPI members...
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Mohamed Hafed, Ph.D., CEO at Introspect Technology: 18 May 2020
The latest trend for semiconductor device manufacturers is to add several high-speed MIPI® specification-based ports to a single device. This enables feature-rich implementations of imaging- and display-intensive applications, although it also poses...
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5G uplink and downlink communications demand significantly more radio frequency (RF) bands, and, in turn, the subcarrier spacing (SCS) windows among RF packets are significantly tighter. That translates to unprecedented requirements for tight timing...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 22 April 2020
Improvements to driver assistance and self-driving systems hinge on collecting and using more data about a car’s surroundings. However, most vehicle networks were not built to support advanced features such as lane-keeping systems and multiple dash...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 6 April 2020
MIPI Alliance has set a quarterly membership record already this year, welcoming 27 new companies in Q1 to its 300+ MIPI members worldwide developing and implementing MIPI specifications.
We look forward to working with these new members that joined or...
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With its 1000x data traffic capacity-enhancing ability over 4G, the promise of 5G technology is set to herald a whole new era in wireless communications. Beyond delivering a richer and ubiquitous immersive multimedia experience, it is going to transform...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 4 March 2020
In the fall of 2019, the MIPI Security Birds of a Feather (BoF) group officially graduated to the Security Investigation Group (IG), affirming MIPI Alliance's commitment to examining security efforts across the organization and providing working groups...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 19 February 2020
Webinar rescheduled: Due to technical issues with our web conferencing platform, this webinar was recheduled from 4 March to 11 March at 8:30 am PDT. Register »
Join MIPI Automotive Working Group chair Matt Ronning (Sony Corporation) and PHY Working...
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Sakari Ailus, MIPI CCS Tools Developer: 13 February 2020
For developers whose work involves the implementation and control of image sensors, MIPI Alliance’s recently released version of its MIPI Camera Command Set (MIPI CCS℠) enables greater flexibility, faster time to market and supports more advanced...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 7 February 2020
Interested in an in-depth discussion of the I3C ecosystem and a look at the new features in MIPI I3C® v1.1? Join I3C Working Group Chair Ken Foust (Intel) for MIPI's second webinar of 2020, "Beyond Sensors: What's New in MIPI I3C v.1.1," on Wednesday, 12...
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Hezi Saar, MIPI Alliance Board Member: 28 January 2020
Rapidly emerging automotive technology is generating new demands for common standards in cameras and displays, essential components for both advanced driving assistance, autonomous vehicles and infotainment for years to come. The MIPI Alliance is already...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 16 January 2020
I see Version 1.0 as setting a new baseline. We came together to make an interface that would dramatically simplify the integration of sensors and...
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Peter Lefkin, MIPI Executive Director: 13 January 2020
As we ring in the new year and look ahead to exciting developments across the MIPI ecosystem, it's clear that our work in 2019 to advance important initiatives and specifications has set up the Alliance for continued success in 2020.
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Brad Biddle, MIPI Counsel: 9 January 2020
MIPI Alliance periodically receives questions about how its legal policies apply in different circumstances. This post addresses questions we’ve received about the requirement that MIPI protocols be used only with MIPI PHYs. The post explains existing...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 6 January 2020
MIPI Alliance would like to welcome 13 companies that joined the Alliance or upgraded their membership from 1 October to 31 December. We look forward to working with these companies joining the 300+ MIPI members worldwide developing and implementing MIPI...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 2 January 2020
Implementers of the most widely used camera interface in mobile and other markets now have a new toolset to support their interoperability and conformance efforts. The MIPI Camera Working Group recently released conformance test suites (CTSs) for the...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 18 December 2019
Earlier this year, the full lineup of MIPI debug and trace specifications was made available to the broader community, giving developers not only a standard, layered set of interfaces and protocols, but also an alternative to using expensive proprietary...
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Henrik Icking, Raj Kumar Nagpal and George Wiley, MIPI PHY Working Groups Chairs and Leads: 26 November 2019
MIPI Alliance has recently released new versions of its two physical layer specifications designed for high-performance, cost-optimized cameras and displays. MIPI C-PHYSM v2.0, released in September 2019, and MIPI D-PHYSM v2.5, released in October,...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 6 November 2019
MIPI Alliance made its mark in Taipei from 14 to 18 October, with a week packed full of activities – from a MIPI I3C Interop Workshop, to Member Meeting #52 with more than a dozen working groups collaborating at face-to-face meetings, to MIPI DevCon...
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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 4 November 2019
MIPI Alliance held its fifth developers conference on 18 October in Taipei, drawing nearly 200 participants to hear presentations from MIPI working group leaders and technical experts, tour member demos and interact with other developers and implementers...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 14 October 2019
MIPI Alliance would like to welcome 19 companies that joined the Alliance or reinstated their memberships from 1 July to 30 September. We look forward to working with these companies joining the 300+ MIPI members worldwide developing and implementing...
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Andy Huckridge, MIPI Technical Marketing Engineer: 8 October 2019
A new MIPI white paper, Driving The Wires of Automotive, explores the evolving automotive industry and the Alliance’s catalyzing role in the unfolding transformation by helping to define the next generation of automotive electronics interfaces.
MIPI...
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Andy Huckridge, MIPI Technical Marketing Engineer: 2 October 2019
MIPI DevCon Taipei—scheduled for 18 October 2019 at the Grand Hyatt Taipei—is a prime opportunity for technical training on MIPI’s comprehensive portfolio of specifications to interface chipsets and peripherals in mobile-connected devices. System...
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Haran Thanigasalam, Chair of the MIPI Camera Working Group: 27 September 2019
One of the challenges we humans have is that our ability to perceive things around us and to make sense of the world relies on abstractions based upon mental constructs. It’s a limited capability. And what we have come to realize is that enabling...
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Enrico Carrieri, Chair of the MIPI Debug Working Group: 12 September 2019
The MIPI Alliance's broad portfolio of debug and trace specifications has streamlined device development both in and beyond the mobile industry. MIPI Alliance members that have adopted these specifications as alternatives to using dedicated debug and...
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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 20 August 2019
The session agenda and lineup of demo participants have been announced for MIPI DevCon Taipei, and we look forward to seeing you on 18 October at the Grand Hyatt Taipei for this full day of technical education. Thanks to the hard work of the MIPI DevCon...
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Brad Biddle, MIPI Counsel: 8 August 2019
In January 2019, MIPI Alliance announced an update to its membership agreement that altered certain intellectual property-related terms. The update became effective for all members in March. This article explains the changes that were made and provides a...
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Rob Gough, Chair of the MIPI Software Working Group: 24 July 2019
The MIPI Discovery and Configuration (MIPI DisCoSM) Base Specification, which simplifies the software integration of external devices in mobile and mobile-influenced systems, now forms the basis of a new specification for integrating MIPI I3C® components.
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Several months ago, MIPI I3C BasicSM, a subset of the MIPI I3C bus interface, was made available to the broader developer community without MIPI membership to foster greater interoperability and innovation in industries beyond mobile, including IoT and...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 5 July 2019
MIPI would like to welcome 20 companies that joined the Alliance or reinstated their memberships from 1 April to 30 June. We look forward to working with these companies joining the 300+ MIPI members worldwide developing and implementing MIPI...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 24 June 2019
MIPI Alliance welcomed 145 participants, representing 46 member companies, to Milan, Italy, 17-21 June, for MIPI Member Meeting Europe #51. Throughout the week, participants collaborated within 17 groups to advance MIPI specifications and strategic...
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Despite stagnant vehicle production levels around the world and the tariff war’s impact on the semiconductor markets, the proliferation of electronics found in cars will...
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MIPI A-PHY is a physical layer specification targeted for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving systems (ADS) and other...
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MIPI System Software – Trace (MIPI SyS-TSM), a system-level tracing protocol, is now easier for software developers to integrate in many mobile systems. An implementation of SyS-T has been added to the Linux kernel, making it instantly available for...
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Since the MIPI Alliance introduced MIPI SoundWire® in 2014, manufacturers have taken advantage of the common and scalable audio interface to bring advanced audio features to a wide range of mobile, PCs and other devices. Now, MIPI is bringing even more...
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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 18 April 2019
Updated 10 June 2019: Registration for MIPI DevCon Stuttgart unfortunately did not rise to a level that would create a successful experience for attendees and participants, and the event was canceled. We appreciate the support of speakers, sponsors and...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 12 April 2019
MIPI kicked off 2019 by welcoming 17 new and reinstated members to the Alliance from 1 January — 31 March. We look forward to working with these companies joining the 300+ MIPI members worldwide developing and implementing MIPI specifications.
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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 4 April 2019
Updated 10 June 2019:Registration for MIPI DevCon Stuttgart unfortunately did not rise to a level that would create a successful experience for attendees and participants, and the event was canceled. We appreciate the support of speakers, sponsors and...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 29 March 2019
MIPI Alliance Member Meeting #50 in Montreal has concluded with a packed agenda. More than 150 representatives from 61 MIPI member companies convened for productive working group sessions, informative presentations and networking opportunities to advance...
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Enrico Carrieri, Chair of the MIPI Debug Working Group: 20 March 2019
MIPI Alliance was well-represented at TestConX 2019, the premier conference on testing of integrated circuits, which took place in Mesa, Arizona, in early March. TestConX is in its 20th year and evolved from the BiTS (Burn-In & Test Strategies) Workshop...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 14 March 2019
At SEMI’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FLEX) and MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress (MSTC) conference last month in Monterey, Calif., much of the buzz surrounded the astonishing projected growth in the demand for sensors in virtually everything, from such...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 1 March 2019
MIPI Alliance formed the Software Working Group in 2014 to foster easier software integration of MIPI-compliant components and...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 20 February 2019
As MIPI recently celebrated 15 years of developing interfaces for the mobile industry, the benefits of standardization for wired interfaces have proved extensible to industries well beyond mobile. In the case of automotive, for example, the development...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 13 February 2019
From IoT communications to mobile video, organizations already have plans to utilize 5G. A recent Gartner survey revealed that 66% of organizations have plans to deploy 5G by 2020. Fortunately, the MIPI Alliance has been working hard to ensure that the...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 4 February 2019
I’ve been involved in MIPI since its inception in early 2003 and have enjoyed every meeting and discussion I’ve had. I have so many...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 23 January 2019
MIPI Alliance is pleased to announce that 13 member companies joined the organization during the final three months of 2018. MIPI has more than 300 member companies worldwide and more than a dozen working groups developing and refining MIPI...
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Enrico Carrieri, Chair of the MIPI Debug Working Group: 4 January 2019
Today, signals and interfaces that used to be visible at test points on a PCB are now embedded in SoCs, so for those of us involved in debug and trace, it’s made our work much more difficult. Of course, new techniques have emerged, but dealing with these...
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Rob Anhofer, MIPI Director of Operations: 31 December 2018
It’s always exciting to kick off a fresh new year amid the hustle and bustle of CES in Las Vegas, and I’m looking forward to representing MIPI once again alongside MIPI Managing Director Peter Lefkin.I’m sure CES 2019 will be just as informative as past...
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Peter Lefkin, MIPI Executive Director: 27 December 2018
Looking back at our accomplishments and progress over this past year, I am struck by how much we can achieve with the support of our members. In 2018, MIPI adopted 11 specifications, hosted a DevCon event with record participation, advanced initiatives...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 20 December 2018
"Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus." – Simon Mainwaring, author and founder of We First
Recognizing the need for alliances and other industry groups to work together to solve the...
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Ramesh Hanchinal, Chair of the MIPI UniPro Working Group: 18 December 2018
MIPI's M-PHY® v4.1 and UniPro® v1.8 specifications feature powerful innovations that increase the performance and quality of mobile device interconnects. In flash storage interconnects, the M-PHY physical layer and UniPro link layer form an ideal...
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Ken Foust, Chair of the MIPI I3C Working Group and MIPI I3C Basic Ad Hoc Working Group: 11 December 2018
When it was released in January 2017, the MIPI I3C specification came as a big relief to developers struggling to keep up with the proliferation of sensors in smartphones, semi-autonomous vehicles, drones and other mobile-connected products. From the...
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Rick Wietfeldt, MIPI Alliance Board Member and former TSG Chair: 26 November 2018
MIPI Alliance is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. I first became involved in MIPI during its formation in 2003 and on reflection this time now seems a primordial era of 2003, when mobile phones with cameras and video-worthy displays were just...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 8 November 2018
Whether you're interested in reviewing one of the many informative sessions held during MIPI DevCon Seoul on 19 October or you weren't able to attend this year's event, you can now relive all of the highlights and access the full lineup of conference...
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Kenneth Ma, Chair of the MIPI Technical Steering Group: 6 November 2018
Every new generation of cellular technology is a major opportunity for device vendors and their suppliers to grow their mind share and market share by being first to market. 5G is no exception, and companies using MIPI interface specifications have a big...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 22 October 2018
MIPI welcomed more than 230 participants to MIPI DevCon Seoul on 19 October for a day of presentations, demos and information sharing among leaders in the mobile and mobile-influenced industries.
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 17 October 2018
In conjunction with the MIPI Member Meeting #49 in Seoul, the Sensor Working Group hosted the MIPI I3C® Interop Workshop on 15-16 October. The event drew 19 representatives from eight member companies.
"MIPI's I3C workshops help members ensure...
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MIPI Alliance: 1 October 2018
Interested in reaching developers, engineers, product designers, analysts and other influencers? If you have a topic related to MIPI specifications or applications, consider contributing a post to MIPI's blog, The Wires Behind Wireless.
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