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With over 1150 adopters and an install base of ~2Billion devices, HDMI has achieved an overwhelming success in the world of consumer electronics. Since its premiere at CES in 2003, HDMI has rapidly evolved and penetrated into applications that can be broadly classified into 3 segments: digital home, mobile multimedia and PC. HDMI is now also found in many niche applications like 2Dà3D converter boxes, wireless hubs, automobiles (Honda Odyssey), NAS boxes etc. Given its broad and deep penetration into the world of consumer electronics, HDMI.org made the right decision to open up the standard body and form an entity called HDMI Forum for new companies willing to participate and define the future of HDMI. Synopsys is now a part of the HDMI forum and is looking forward to influence and make positive contributions to the HDMI specification for next generation consumer electronic applications. Being the largest provider of connectivity IPs, we can capture a very broad view of the semiconductor market and overall consumer electronic industry trends. We have collected feedback from over 125 companies that are integrating HDMI connectivity into their SOCs. We constantly meet with consumer electronic giants to discuss their requirements for next generation platforms. This puts us in a very unique position to translate the end customer requirements into HDMI specification.