DisplayLink earns 'PC Magazine' Technical Excellence Award

DL-160 chip among top 'incredible innovations' in 25th annual competition

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov.19, 2008 – DisplayLink Corp.’s USB graphics technology has received a PC Magazine Technical Excellence Award – one of just 15 technologies that the magazine called “the incredible innovations of the past year.”

Editors named the DisplayLink DL-160 chip as a top technology in the graphics category. The DL-160 chip allows people to use a simple USB connection to display high-quality graphics on up to six monitors. DisplayLink technology requires only a DL-160 chip in displays or notebook docking stations, and software on the linked PC.

“There are several technologies available today that can send a video signal through a computer’s USB port to a monitor or projector,” wrote PC Magazine editors, “but DisplayLink is by far the most impressive.”

“Earning the vote of PC Magazine’s experts validates the quality, simplicity and high performance of our USB graphics approach. It is a source of pride for all of us,” says Hamid Farzaneh, DisplayLink president and CEO. “The award complements what our customers have said time and again – that the DL-160 chip transforms the cumbersome way to connect one or more displays with a PC or notebook.”

According to PC Magazine, the Technical Excellence Awards are voted on by the magazine's editors, senior contributors and PC Magazine Labs staff, who are looking for the most innovative products that demonstrate technological breakthroughs. Categories vary year to year to reflect changes in the industry. Winners are chosen from hundreds of products that are shipped in the 12-month period ending Sept. 30. This year marked the 25th anniversary of the Technical Excellence Award competition.

About DisplayLink
DisplayLink Corp. is a network display chip and software company that helps people create simple connections between computers and displays – via USB, making the benefits of expanded visual workspace available to everyone. Using universally accepted wired or wireless networking protocols and proprietary software compression techniques, graphically rich content can be transmitted easily between a single device and multiple displays over a network. Leading global manufacturers have integrated network display technology into an array of consumer electronics including USB-enabled monitors, video docking stations, display adapters and projectors.