What is Matter? When you plug a gaming console from one company into a TV from another, using a cable from yet another, it’s the HDMI consortium that created standards for that all to work. Each company agrees to build their products to a spec. Those products have to pass certain tests, and then they can say they work with a certain version of the HDMI specification. There have been a variety of standards like this in smart home tech, but none as ambitious as Matter.
1: What's the matter with Matter?
1: What's the matter with Matter?
1: What's the matter with Matter?
What is Matter? When you plug a gaming console from one company into a TV from another, using a cable from yet another, it’s the HDMI consortium that created standards for that all to work. Each company agrees to build their products to a spec. Those products have to pass certain tests, and then they can say they work with a certain version of the HDMI specification. There have been a variety of standards like this in smart home tech, but none as ambitious as Matter.