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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 3 September 2025
Earlier this year, MIPI established the I/O Bridges Working Group, which was promoted from a 2024 MIPI Birds of a Feather (BoF) group, to explore the need for standardized hardware and software solutions to support I/O bridge use cases in computing...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 13 August 2025
Implementers of MIPI I3C®/I3C Basic™ and I3C HCI™ recently had the opportunity to engage in interoperability testing between controller and target devices at a two-day MIPI I3C Plugfest, held in conjunction with MIPI’s 69th member meeting in Warsaw....
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Global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and other automotive supply chain vendors are joining the growing ecosystem that is designing products based on MIPI A-PHY® for high-speed image sensor and display connectivity. These companies recognize the...
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Changes in automotive architectures and the rapid climb in the number and complexity of displays and cameras in today's vehicles have amplified the industry’s need for more high-speed data links and networks that deliver greater quality, more robust...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 15 February 2024
To address the ever-increasing resolution and bandwidth required by today’s video-rich applications, the Display Working Group has upgraded MIPI Display Serial Interface 2 (DSI-2℠) to take advantage of the optional embedded clock feature introduced in...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 14 December 2023
The MIPI A-PHY Compliance Program is now officially moving forward, following a board review in late June of the program's successful pilot phase, which included two test events with participation from multiple member companies. When the program is fully...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 9 August 2023
MIPI Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2®) further secures its place as the preferred image sensor interface by the extended automotive ecosystem as part of a liaison relationship announced jointly today between MIPI Alliance and the Automotive SerDes...
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As MIPI Alliance marks its 20th anniversary this year, MIPI specifications continue to advance and be leveraged in new applications within mobile and mobile-influenced adjacent industries, such as automotive and IoT. And along with this momentum, there...
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The MIPI A-PHY Compliance Pilot Program is now shifting into its next phase, with a more extensive testing event to be hosted by Eurofins Digital Testing at a lab in Belgium on 11 May. The event will test DUTs (devices under test) against more of the...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 21 February 2023
MIPI Alliance specifications will be in the spotlight next month at the 21st annual embedded world Exhibition & Conference, with two dedicated MIPI education tracks and nine total sessions focused on MIPI specifications.
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 27 September 2022
“By all measures, the event was a great success.”
That’s how Jonathan Georgino, founder of Binho LLC, described the recent MIPI I3C Interop Workshop in a post for his company’s blog. Other participants echoed his sentiments in a 27 September MIPI...
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Since its introduction in 2007, MIPI UniPro® has been incorporated into multiple versions of the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association's Universal Flash Storage (UFS) standard as its transport and link layers, along with MIPI M-PHY® serving as its...
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To satisfy the demand for both advanced safety features and better driver and passenger experiences, automakers are adding more displays, larger in size and with greater resolutions, to the digital cockpit. This trend has created a need for more...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 13 April 2022
Over the past year, MIPI has adopted a record number of new and updated interface specifications for mobile, the Internet of Things (IoT), automotive and related industries. Three key 2021 releases in particular have garnered significant media interest...
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Following the recent announcement by longtime chair Joel Huloux (STMicroelectronics) of his upcoming retirement, the MIPI Alliance Board of Directors has appointed new leadership for the first time in nearly a decade. As detailed in a 5 April 2022 press...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 23 March 2022
A recent collaboration between the MIPI I3C Working Group and the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has resulted in a new USB-IF specification that dramatically expands the possible use cases and ecosystem for both the Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 10 February 2022
A major update to the world’s most widely implemented embedded camera and imaging interface delivers a scalable foundation upon which next-generation artificial intelligence and machine‑vision systems can enhance human-device interaction. Version 4.0 of...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 31 January 2022
To kick off the new year, MIPI Alliance recently announced the adoption of A-PHYSM v1.1, the latest version of the automotive serializer-deserializer (SerDes) physical-layer interface, doubling the maximum downlink data rate from 16 Gbps to 32 Gbps,...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 21 December 2021
MIPI Alliance's versatile M-PHY® physical-layer (PHY) interface offers engineers configuration choices and the ability to address multiple markets and use cases with designs for interconnecting components in advanced 5G smartphones, wearables, PCs and...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 2 September 2021
MIPI Alliance’s family of specialized, point-to-point, physical layer (PHY) serial interfaces support a variety of chip-to-chip, chip-to-camera and chip-to-display applications that require high bandwidth, low power and low electromagnetic interference...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 17 August 2021
The MIPI Display Serial Interface 2 (MIPI DSI-2℠) specification is already deployed in many of the world’s handsets, smartwatches, virtual reality headsets, laptops, tablets and automobiles. Delivering significant improvements to user experience and...
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As announced on 13 July, MIPI A-PHY v1.0 was recently adopted by IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity.
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 11 March 2021
Formed in 2019, the MIPI Security Investigation Group (Security IG) was established to provide recommendations for a scalable, uniform MIPI security framework and ongoing support model, as well as to offer guidance to MIPI working groups on overarching...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 26 January 2021
Update: MIPI A-PHY was adopted as an IEEE standard in June 2021 and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
MIPI Alliance is rolling out a portfolio of Protocol Adaptation Layers (PALs) to support a range of important automotive sensor and display...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 5 January 2021
Two of the most significant MIPI highlights of 2020 were the eagerly anticipated releases of MIPI RFFE v3.0SM in April and MIPI A-PHYSM v1.0 in September. With the rollout of 5G well underway, and the rapid advancements in ADAS, ADS and IVI automotive...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 21 December 2020
Update: MIPI A-PHY was adopted as an IEEE standard in June 2021 and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
Recently MIPI Alliance announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...