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What if the most transformative leap in connectivity isn’t another wireless upgrade, but a smarter wire? We sit down with Valens Semiconductor’s Gili Friedman to explore how high‑bandwidth, zero‑latency, and EMI‑resilient links are quietly powering the systems we can’t afford to fail—cars, factories, clinics, and the collaboration rooms where work actually happens.

Gili walks us through Valens’ journey from co‑creating HDBaseT with industry giants to winning MIPI’s AFI standard for automotive. We break down why reliability and determinism matter more than ever as vehicles add cameras, consolidate compute, and demand split‑second perception. You’ll hear how Mercedes is already shipping with Valens inside, how robust DSP turns simple UTP cables into long‑reach data highways, and why avoiding compression keeps vision algorithms fast, accurate, and predictable. Then we shift to industrial and medical machine vision, where rising frame rates, harsh EMI, and real‑time control make “good enough” links a bottleneck. The takeaway is clear: when every sensor is a camera and every decision is time‑critical, strong wired connectivity unlocks safer autonomy, higher throughput, and cleaner system design.

We also touch on the business realities: navigating global supply constraints, cable costs, and ecosystem bets through standards that de‑risk adoption. Gili previews the roadmap across pro AV (hybrid work and conference rooms), automotive (next‑gen interfaces and architectures), and industrial/medical (on‑link features that move the right pixels at the right moment). If you care about automotive connectivity, machine vision, embedded vision, or DSP‑driven system design, this conversation connects the dots between theory and deployment.

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