In connected car news are MIPI Alliance, Repairify, Opus IVS, Molex, Micron, General Motors, Toyoda Gosei, Tohoku University, VI-grade, Pirelli, RIDEsense, onsemi & Synaptics. In this Article MIPI Alliance Honors Contribution and Leadership in 13th Annual Membership Awards The MIPI Alliance announced the recipients of its 2025 Membership Awards at a ceremony held during Member Meeting #72 in Berlin, Germany. The annual awards recognize notable engineering achievements, specification development, and working group leadership within the international organization, which standardizes wired interface specifications for mobile, automotive, and IoT ecosystems. The selection process, managed by the Awards Recognition Committee and approved by the MIPI Alliance Board of Directors, honored four individuals across distinct categories reflecting their technical contributions to high-bandwidth data transfer and audio architectures. Edo Cohen of Valens Semiconductor received the Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor from the alliance, commemorating 17 years of technical leadership. Cohen currently serves as vice chair of the Technical Steering Group, co-chair of the A-PHY Working Group, and chair of the newly established Physical AI Birds of a Feather Group. His contributions include driving enhancements for the MIPI A-PHY serializer-deserializer physical layer specification and structuring the MIPI A-PHY Compliance Program. The Working Group Leadership Award went to Aruni Nelson of Intel Corporation for her oversight as chair of the Audio Working Group, where she managed the publication of the MIPI SoundWire for I3S v1.0 interface and directed the development of forthcoming audio bus controller interface standards. The remaining accolades recognized engineering service and institutional operations. Rod Hogan of Apple Inc. received the Distinguished Service Award for his technical expertise in analyzing and refining acoustic proposals within the Audio Working Group. The Special Achievement Award was granted to George Goodman, who retired from the MIPI Alliance in 2026, honoring his tenure as program manager across multiple