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China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative – GPMI up to 192 Gbps, 480W

33 points by ksec

by ksec

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TCL, Hisense, Skyworth, Xiaomi etc. Chinese Manufacture has now likely passed the 50% marketshare. There are other manufacture that may not have interest in HDMI which means we could see most TV shipping to have GPMI.
Although the Table isn't accurate as USB4 should be able to do 80 Gbit/s symmetric connections or asymmetric connections supporting 120 Gbit/s in one direction and 40 Gbit/s in the other.
But the deeper, or higher overview of things isn't the standard itself. But Western or incumbent companies which rely on HDMI royalty are being challenged not on standard spec and implementation itself, but actual end product being defined by Chinese companies. It is one way to break free of those royalty when china operate at cut throat competition. It is also another note to the world saying these companies are too slow to innovate.
I just hope HDMI and Displyport will come up with something better.

by WorldPeas

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God what a world it’d be if we could finally switch video to sdi/dp over usb-c. I’ve had hate for the overly complicated hdmi cable for so long and at this point wonder why it even sticks around, the usb-c type connector is so cheap it can be made with a board edge, can achieve great throughput and is more or less ubiquitous. Why are we still using a directional plug that usually requires a dongle, has poorly understood power/data delivery standards and the worst “micro” connector I’ve ever had to use(broke 2 cables even though the second was taped in place to prevent the breakage)
https://videocardz.com/newz/chinas-general-purpose-media-int...

by karmakaze

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Videocardz.com has some more info[0].
[0] https://videocardz.com/newz/chinas-general-purpose-media-int...

by m463

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