14 Facts About DisplayLink

DisplayLink is a semiconductor and software technology company.

DisplayLink operates worldwide with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, and Taiwan.

DisplayLink is privately funded and by 2013 had raised $75 million in financing from venture capital organizations Atlas Venture, Balderton Capital, Cipio Partners DAG Ventures and DFJ Esprit.

DisplayLink was founded in 2003 as Newnham Research by Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Martin King.

DisplayLink launched its first semiconductor product family, the DL-120 and DL-160 USB 2.

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In May 2009, DisplayLink launched its second semiconductor product family, the DL-125, DL-165, and DL-195 USB 2.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in 2012, DisplayLink announced several products incorporating video and graphics over a USB 3.

At CES in 2013, DisplayLink demonstrated USB Power Delivery in which a standard USB cable is used to charge a laptop computer.

At CES in 2016, DisplayLink announced their latest docking chip, DL-6000 series, to support dual 4Kp60 over USB 3.

Products with DisplayLink technology are supported on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, macOS, Android, Chrome OS and Ubuntu.

DisplayLink enabled devices can be used on Chrome OS from R51 onwards.

An article on DisplayLink's website said that minor issues under Mavericks and Yosemite were being resolved in collaboration with Apple.

DisplayLink finally responded to this in August 2015 by releasing a binary driver for Ubuntu, which supports all current USB 3.

An independent review determined that DisplayLink use leads to significantly higher CPU utilization compared to displays connected by native video interfaces.