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— HDMI® Technology is the foundation for the worldwide ecosystem of HDMI-connected devices; integrated with displays, set-top boxes, laptops, audio video receivers and other product types. Because of this global usage, manufacturers, resellers, integrators and consumers must be assured that their HDMI® products work seamlessly together and deliver the best possible performance by sourcing products from licensed HDMI Adopters or authorized resellers. For HDMI Cables, consumers can look for the official HDMI® Cable Certification Labels on packaging. Innovation continues with the latest HDMI 2.2 Specification that supports higher 96Gbps bandwidth and next-gen HDMI Fixed Rate Link technology to provide optimal audio and video for a wide range of device applic…
Posted by – December 27, 2025
— HDMI® Technology is the foundation for the worldwide ecosystem of HDMI-connected devices; integrated with displays, set-top boxes, laptops, audio video receivers and other product types. Because of this global usage, manufacturers, resellers, integrators and consumers must be assured that their HDMI® products work seamlessly together and deliver the best possible performance by sourcing products from licensed HDMI Adopters or authorized resellers. For HDMI Cables, consumers can look for the official HDMI® Cable Certification Labels on packaging. Innovation continues with the latest HDMI 2.2 Specification that supports higher 96Gbps bandwidth and next-gen HDMI Fixed Rate Link technology to provide optimal audio and video for a wide range of device applications. Higher resolutions and refresh rates are supported, including up to 12K@120 and 16K@60. Additionally, more high-quality options are supported, including uncompressed full chroma formats such as 8K@60/4:4:4 and 4K@240/4:4:4 at 10-bit and 12-bit color. —
One of the more interesting integrations is “smart surfaces” that combine comfort and sensing. The demo pairs radiant heating elements with capacitive proximity/touch, so the surface can warm quickly for EV energy efficiency while still warning the user as temperature rises and tracking contact to reduce burn risk. The same sensing discipline maps to Hands-Off Detection (HoD) for assisted driving, where the vehicle must detect hand presence even when heating, humidity, or electromagnetic interference would normally confuse a sensor, and it does this with a single-chip touch architecture in mind there.
On the display side, the cockpit is treated as a multi-screen domain: a wide curved OLED dash area plus a separate touchpad zone that supports pinch-to-zoom navigation gestures, touch buttons, and a functional-safety posture aligned with ISO 26262 (Microchip even markets M1-generation maXTouch parts as ASIL-B ready building blocks for large curved displays, including OLED and emerging microLED). Filmed at Embedded World North America 2025, the booth setup also stitches in rear-view camera views, wireless phone charging detection, and lightweight “in-car app” interactions to show how these inputs can coexist inside.
The practical takeaway is that the demo is already “car-real”, but production depends on OEM and Tier-1 integration across the full bill of materials: the display vendor, seat or trim supplier for heating elements, and the ECU teams that own safety cases and cybersecurity boundaries. As the interview notes, a 2–3 year path from reference cockpit to a shipping program is plausible once touch robustness, thermal behavior, and driver-distraction rules are validated on the road.
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