As revealed in an HDMI Press Briefing during Computex a couple of weeks ago, the HDMI Licensing Administrator has revealed that “we should start to see” HDMI 2.2 products in 2027. This means products offering up to 96 gigabits of bandwidth, double the amount currently offered in HDMI 2.1. We already saw the HDMI 2.2 specs finalized last year with 8K 120Hz support.

Confirmation of the 2027 release window comes courtesy of Nicolas Charbonnier (known as Charbax), founder of ARMdevices.net, who recently uploaded a video of the briefing to his YouTube channel. Interestingly, the release is on track to match the HDMI 2.1’s two-year timeframe, between reveal and launch; the 2.1 standard first arrived with LG’s 2019 OLED TVs.

HDMI 2.2 products are expected to ship in 2027

“We’re hearing chip manufacturers will start to sample their FRL2 chips this year. And so we should start to see some 96 or up to 96 gigabit HDMI 2.2 products next year.”

Rob Tobias, CEO and President of the HDMI Licensing Administrator

While the big selling point of HDMI 2.1 was its uncompressed 4K 120Hz support – ideal for next-gen consoles at the time, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S – HDMI 2.2 specifications bump that up to 4K 240Hz uncompressed. It will also offer 8K 60Hz without any help from Display Stream Compression (DSC). With DSC in the picture, it supports up to 12K 120Hz and 16K 60Hz.

Rob Tobias actually later suggested in his briefing that the first HDMI 2.2-certified products may emerge this quarter or next quarter, but it’s consumer goods (products that we’re actually interested in) that are slated for 2027. He did not reveal any specifics, but if it’s a repeat of the HDMI 2.1 launch, you may expect to see a high-end TV debut with support.

Speculation last year suggested AMD’s next-gen RDNA 5 cards would ship with the HDMI 2.2 standard. It would make sense given the fact that AMD pushed the envelope with DisplayPort 2.1 support – first featured in the Radeon RX 7000 series, way before Nvidia adopted the tech for its RTX 50 series. Recent reports suggest these GPUs won’t be ready for at least another year.

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