Date: 17/05/2009
DisplayLink's USB graphic display interface ICs shipment-counter crossed 1 Million
DisplayLink Corp. has sold more than one million USB graphics semiconductor ICs used for connecting display-interface through USB port. The ICs DL-120 and DL-160 are the part of this sales record. These are DisplayLink's flagship products. The number of ICs shipped indicates this technology is ticking well in the market.
The advantage of DisplayLink graphic interface chips is, a single PC or any such computing device can have multiple displays to display different data on different screens. This technology saves the PC-user from the strain (pressing quite often alt tab keys on the keyboard for switching windows) of controlling and watching all the content on single screen. The hardware IC is supported by graphics software, which runs on most of the popular operating systems such as Windows, and Mac OS.
Support for Linux was added recently. DisplayLink is partnering with Novell and Linux Driver Project (LDP) to provide driver and other software support for Linux OS.
With inevitable multitasking in today's work environment, hooking up another display screen to your PC through the ubiquitous USB port is easy through this technology.
"DisplayLink has completely reinvented the way computers talk to displays. Our IC's make it possible to use standard plug and play USB to connect a laptop to one or more displsys, bringing the world a major step closer to the ideal "single world connector" status. Achieving sales of one million chips clearly shows the mainstream reach of our technology with customers and end-users who readily appreciate the simplicity of our approach and the productivity benefits of using multiple displays" said Hamid Farzaneh, president and CEO of DisplayLink.
The various product examples provided by DisplayLink, which embeds this device in them are,
1. USB-connected monitors from Acer, ASUS, LG, Mitsubishi and Samsung
2. Application specific monitors - like 4" to 7" mini displays from Buffalo, Century, IO Data, Nanovision and Samsung as well as new companion monitors, like the Samsung Lapfit, designed specifically as an accessory to notebook PCs.
3. Universal USB docking stations from HP, Kensington, Lenovo, Fujitsu-Siemens, Sony and Toshiba, allowing people to connect their display, mouse, keyboard, speakers and network to any notebook PC though a simple USB 2.0 connection.
4. Wired and Wireless USB graphics adapters from a wide range of vendors including Diamond Multimedia, EVGA, IOGear, IO-Data, Kensington and others, enabling an easy way to add an existing monitor or projector to a PC through a single plug-and-display USB 2.0 cable.
5. USB projectors from InFocus, creating the easiest way to connect a projector to a PC. It eliminates the fumbling with function keys experienced by millions of people when trying to give a presentation through a traditional analog video connector.
Market analyst In-Stat predicts, the number of USB 2.0 monitors to grow to nearly 12 million units in year 2011, the USB 3.0 monitors to grow to nearly 58 million in year 2012. Also PC Docking Stations with wired USB docking (or universal docking) is predicted to grow to nearly 19 million in year 2012, with the majority of them being USB graphics enabled.
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