About nine months ago, I delivered an article on HDMI2.1 is Reaching Its Tipping Point in LinkedIn.
On 12 June, Sony released its 5th generation playstation home game console(PS5), which applies HDMI2.1 cable and supports original 8K signal.
In 2020, driven by the epidemic, the demand for home office and game entertainment increased. From Q2, HDMI ushered in a peak period. Under the background of the epidemic and China-US trade war, many enterprises have achieved positive growth or even strong performance growth.
The HDMI 2.1 Specification includes a new cable – the Ultra High Speed HDMI Cable. It’s the only cable that complies with stringent specifications designed to ensure support for all HDMI 2.1 features including uncompressed 8K@60 and 4K@120.
HDMI 2.1 was born under the trend of 8K trend. It integrates higher resolution and refresh rate (8K / 60Hz, 10K), supports dynamic HDR, bandwidth of 48Gbps, ultra-low EMI radiation, the latest earc technology, Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), Quick
Media Switching technology (QMS), Quick Frame Transmission (QFT), Auto Low-Latency Mode (allm) and many other coronas and black technologies in one. The product will be the standard configuration of 8K TV and most 8K display equipment.
And, if you want to enter the market of Ultra High Speed HDMI Cable, you have to finish Ultra High Speed HDMI® Cable Certification program, which mainly contains Differential Impedance, Differential Insertion Loss, Max Intra/Inter Pair Skew, Near-end, Far-end Crosstalk, Mode Conversion, Eye Diagram, and a new added testing named EMI(Electromagnetic Interference).
Any certificated cable will be marked a Ultra High Speed HDMI® Cable Name on package, so that consumer can easily identify the certification status.
1. Specific Cat3 authentication connector must be used;
2. The consistency requirements of cable manufacturing and processing are more strict;
3. It must meet the requirements of EMI specification;
4. Impedance mismatch will lead to poor insertion loss;
5. Equalizer is added to high-speed eye diagram test;
6. At present, only copper cable has the possibility to pass the certification (AAC and AOC need not be considered for the time being);
7. At present, the mostly predicted length is 3M, 2M and 1M, and the limit is 4M.
As what we estimated that from Q4 in 2020, many 8K TVs and other consumer electronics have been pushed into market, of which the brands such as TCL, Xiaomi, etc.
In last night, Xiaomi declared its new generation cellphone Mi 11, which supports 8K video shooting.
News from Forbes, LG announced its first QNED series TV – Mini LED TV, which has both 8K and 120HZ performance. Although we don`t have its selling price, LG has established it as the market leader in the high-end market. It`s probable to know more about the detail in the CES 2021 .
A recent Deloitte report predicts that 8K TV sales will reach 1 million units by 2021.
To popularize 8K, many devices providers and content producers are sparing no effort in seizing market.
Canon heralded its 8K video camera again! Compared with its rollout in Paris Canon Expo in 2015, the new 8K Cinema EOS has achieved great improvement, but it`s still not a mature solution.
While the Japan Broadcasting Corporation(NHK) has launched a satellite channel dedicated to 8K content in December 2018. NHK has made a grand plan for 8K this year, which aims to broadcast the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games with 8K. Although it has been shelved due to COVID-19 pandemic, they still want to make it come true in 2021.
We have good reason to believe that after a difficult year of 2020, the connector industry will bring us a surprise of a new generation of connectors with more amazing new technology and more safe and reliable products in 2021.
What is more, the upstream and downstream industries of consumer electronics will also get a new growth, of course including precision mold for connector manufacturing.
