China is responding with technology to tariffs. And the last thing is what the Cooperation Alliance for the 8K UHD Video Industry of Shenzhen (a group that unites more than 100 Chinese companies in the sector) is the GPMI, acronym for general purpose media interface. It’s about A new cable multimedia communication standard that would replace HDMI, USB and Displayport, inter alia.
The idea of this consortium is to reduce the amount of cables necessary in the home, both those destined to feed devices, and those used to transmit data. According to Chinese media, this cable has Very interesting characteristics. And logical, taking into account technological news.
For example, it would allow to reproduce content with four times more pixels than 4K and 16 times more pixels than 1080p. As for data transfer, it reaches 192 GBPS, against the 80s of the Displayport 2.1 or the “Miseros” 48 of HDMI.
The GPMI, according to the statement, would be Available in two versions: a type B, used. In fact, the connector would have already had the approval of the USB Association that regulates this type of connections.
As for the feeding of the devices, not only allows a power of 240 watts, it would also facilitate regulating that power and, in the case of the type-b gpmi reach the 480 watts. What would it be used for? This cable would replace the HDMI, USB, feed cables, It would be ideal for VR/AR environments, games or data centersreducing the dependency of US -controlled standards or the EU.
Its high -speed characteristics, multimedia capacity (audio/video) and versatility for peripherals, makes it A risky, but very interesting option as part of the Chinese technological autonomy strategy (similar to what happens with chips, operating systems, etc.).
Although the GPMI would be supported by technological giants such as Huawei, Tencent, Skyworth, Tcl, Hysilicon, Konka or Topway, it is still a project that has not been evaluated by Europe or the United States … still. AND To triumph would need to be adopted by large manufacturers (Huawei, Xiaomi, Lenovo) and overcome USB4 in speed/price.