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If you’re reading this, you must have heard about the M-PCIe specification that has just been announced by two very important standardization bodies in the semiconductor industry—MIPI Alliance and PCI-SIG. According to the press release that was released during the PCI-SIG event last month, “M-PCIe specification provides uncompromised scalable performance while delivering a consistent user experience across multiple mobile platforms.” This sounds very appealing, but exactly does it mean to the mobile SoC developers?

As I wrote in my previous post, the MIPI Alliance is known for the introduction of over 30 specifications targeted for mobile platforms, and has managed to do this in just 10 years. Certainly, 10 years is a lot of time, and mobile market is the fastest growing segment of the semiconductor industry, but still the number is impressive. Even more impressive is the fact that these specs have been adopted by the major players in the market, and thus have made their way into pretty much every mobile device there is.

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