DisplayLink Launches ICs for Connecting Computer Displays via USB and Wireless USB.Innovative DL-120 & DL-160 Offer High Quality Graphics and Video; First in Family That Will Offer Wired, Wireless Monitor Connectivity PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- DisplayLink Inc. (formerly Newnham Technology) today announced the DL-120 and DL-160 high-performance chips that link monitors to PCs using USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. 2.0. The new chips allow monitor manufacturers, PC OEMs and PC accessory companies to develop products for multi-monitor computing including USB-connected monitors, video-enabled USB laptop docks, display connectivity accessories and other devices. DisplayLink's USB chips are the first to offer high-resolution display connectivity over a USB 2.0 connection. The high performance of the solution means that the user experience with mouse, monitor and keyboard is comparable to a conventional DVI (1) (Digital Video Interactive) An earlier compression technique that provided up to 72 minutes of full-screen video on a CD-ROM. Acquired by Intel in 1988 from RCA's Sarnoff Research labs, Princeton, NJ, DVI never caught on. or VGA-connected monitor. Static images in 32-bit true color (1) Specifically, refers to 16,777,216 colors (24-bit color). See high color. (2) Generically, refers to photo-realistic color (typically requires 24-bit color as a minimum). are displayed without quality loss or color reduction and full-motion, DVD-quality video plays in real-time. The DL-120 supports display resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 and the DL-160 extends support up to 1600 x 1200. "With DisplayLink connectivity, consumers can keep adding monitors, photo frames and other application specific displays to PCs in their work or home environments over USB 2.0 or Wireless USB The wireless version of the universal serial bus (USB). Using ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, wireless USB is designed to provide the same 480 Mbits/sec data rate as USB 2.0 within two meters (6.6 ft.) or 110 Mbps within 10 meters (33 ft.). ," said Hamid Farzaneh, DisplayLink president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "The new DL-120 and DL-160 offer a high-performance alternative that will bring multi-display applications into the mainstream." A Hardware/Software Solution The complete DisplayLink solution is comprised of Virtual Graphics Card (VGC VGC Very Good Condition VGC VG Cats (web comic) VGC Video Graphics Controller VGC Vintage Glider Club VGC Viscosity-Gravity Constant VGC Video Game Club VGC Video Game Central (website) ) software that runs on a Windows host PC and a Hardware Rendering Engine (HRE HRE abbr. Holy Roman Empire ) inside of the DL-120 or DL-160 chip. The VGC software processes a stream of display information using the company's patented lossless See lossless compression. (algorithm, compression) lossless - A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression. graphics protocol and transmits it over a USB 2.0 or wireless USB link to the HRE chip that reconstructs the image on the display. First in a Family The DL-120 and DL-160 are now available in production. They are the first in a series of display connectivity solutions to come from DisplayLink. The core VGC and HRE technology can be extended to a wide range of standard connectivity technologies such as Ethernet or Wi-Fi to provide new solutions for network connected computer projectors, digital picture frames, computer-based signage and others. For more information, see the DisplayLink Web site at www.displaylink.com, or contact DisplayLink sales at Sales@displaylink.com. About DisplayLink DisplayLink (formerly Newnham Technology) is a fabless display connectivity IC company, formed in 2003 to enable simple and flexible connections between computers and displays using standard wired and wireless links. The company's technology allows any number of displays to be connected to a single PC. DisplayLink's investors include Atlas Venture, Benchmark Capital and Esprit Capital. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with main R&D and product development activities in Cambridge, UK. More information can be found at www.displaylink.com. |
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