Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has produced a 130nm family of DisplayLink USB graphics chips designed by DisplayLink and manufactured at SMIC.
The companies claimed that these new products – the DL-125, DL-165 and DL-195 allow to connect additional monitors using USB 2.0 connected docking stations, monitors, mini-monitors, projectors, and adapters.
Reportedly, the new silicon and software product provides integration for USB graphics devices, supports HD display resolutions and has software and hardware advances that support video playback and interactivity.
Chiou-Feng Chen, vice president of marketing and sales at SMIC, said: SMIC is honored to provide foundry services to DisplayLink, whose rapid development exemplifies the overall growth of the niche consumer electronics fabless design industry. By combining SMIC’s manufacturing expertise with DisplayLink’s system and design capabilities, we are able to better serve customers by achieving high standards in quality and cost-performance ratio.
DisplayLink said that the new technology has already been deployed in Samsung’s new SyncMaster LapFit LD190G and LD220G USB companion monitors and the Lenovo USB-to-DVI Monitor Adapter.
Dennis Crespo, executive vice president of marketing and business development at DisplayLink, said: Thanks to SMIC’s full range of services and support, we can have commercial production ramp-up in high volume to meet the rapidly growing market’s demand together with an ideal cost-performance ratio. As our business continues to expand, we anticipate our collaboration with SMIC will continue to strengthen.
DisplayLink USB Graphics product reportedly consists of a DisplayLink processor in the peripheral device (monitor, dock, adapter, and projector) and software installed on the PC, notebook or netbook.
DisplayLink claims that the image processing algorithms, coupled with the DDR memory interface and DisplayLink DL2+ adaptive compression scheme ensures an interactive and low latency user experience that is nearly indistinguishable from a traditional monitor connection. This also allows support for full-screen video playback.
In addition, DisplayLink’s software reportedly integrates with the operating system including Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit), including Vista Aero 3D, and Windows XP, along with Intel-based Apple Mac OS X and includes an MSI Installer for corporate-wide installation.
