The DL-120 and DL-160 allow up to six additional monitors to be added to a PC through USB 2.0.
Note the name is very similar to DisplayPort which was approved by VESA earlier that year.ĭisplayLink launched its first semiconductor product family, the DL-120 and DL-160 USB 2.0 graphics devices, in January 2007, signalling an important change in the company's business plan from FPGA-based systems to semiconductors. In November 2006, Newnham Research renamed itself to DisplayLink, a name that allegedly better described their display connection technology. In 2006, Newnham Research launched its first commercially available product in partnership with the Kensington Computer Products Group: a USB 2.0 universal laptop docking station designed for the retail market. The company referred to these thin-client computers as network displays. The Newnham Research team invented NIVO (Network In, Video Out) designed for low cost thin client computing over Ethernet networks. DisplayLink was founded in 2003 as Newnham Research by Dr.
