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Q:Active® HD
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Intersil Announces Industry’s First Long-Haul Mini DisplayPort™ Video HyperWall Interconnects
Q:Active® HD Delivers Deep Color HD Video up to 50 Meters on Low-Cost
Copper Cables for Extreme Gamers, High-Performance Computing, Rendering
Studios and HyperWall Displays
Intersil to Demo Q:Active HD HyperWall at CES South Hall 1, Booth 21422
and Q:Active HD at VESA’s Booth in South Hall 20544
MILPITAS, CA and Consumer Electronics Show, LAS VEGAS, NV — January
8, 2010 — Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ
Global Select: ISIL), a world leader
in the design and manufacture of high-performance analog
and mixed-signal semiconductors today announced its Q:Active® HD line
of high-performance DisplayPort cables.
Powered by the Intersil’s Q:Active analog signal processing technology,
these “active cables” support the full 8.64Gbps bandwidth (HBR)
of DisplayPort 1.1a, enabling a resolution of 2560p x 1600p through up to
50 meters of copper cable – far exceeding the capabilities of interconnects
which are currently limited to lengths of 3 meters or less. They also
support the upcoming DisplayPort 1.2 specification (HBR2) that doubles the
resolution and color depth with an aggregate data rate of 17.28Gbps.
At the Consumer Electronics Show, Intersil is demonstrating Deep Color, Full
Bandwidth HD digital video running over the industry’s longest and thinnest
copper Mini DisplayPort (mDP) to DisplayPort hybrid cable. The demonstration
shows 50Gbps of Deep Color video information running 20 meters to a 25 megapixel
HyperWall in stunning clarity.
“Clearly this is a breakthrough for consumer interconnects at a time
that's right”, said Ken Fleck, Founder of Fleck Research, and a veteran
in the interconnect industry. “Intersil’s approach, technology,
and user benefits are impressive.”
“It is very pleasing to see innovative solutions like Intersil’s
mDP-to-DP ultra-thin active cables introduced so shortly after the adoption
of the standard. This interconnect will be an attractive addition to technologies
available to DisplayPort end users,” said Bruce Montag, Chairman of
the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA).”
“We are extremely proud to introduce our Q:Active HD DisplayPort copper
cable assemblies," said Huibert Verhoeven, vice president and general
manager of Intersil’s High-Speed Products Group. "These ultra-thin
long-haul interconnects will enable high-speed digital video and audio data
transmission for the entire range of display applications, from extreme gaming
to commercial and personal video HyperWalls. Our Q:Active technology,
now proven in High Performance Computing, is making its way to the consumer
market with unprecedented benefits.“
Technical Specifications
In the CES demonstration, high-definition video is displayed over six 30-inch
flat-panel displays with 2560p x 1600p resolution over 20-meter 32AWG ultra-thin
Q:Active HD mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort Hybrid cables. Mini DisplayPort
(mDP) is the small connector standard recently adopted by the Video Electronics
Standards Association (VESA) for the newest portable PCs, ultra-thin netbooks
and notebooks. The small form-factor of the mDP connector makes it difficult
to utilize traditional thick wire gauge cable, making the Q:Active ultra-thin
cable technology an essential alternative.
These active cables use Intersil high-speed CMOS devices that are embedded
directly into the connector, and compensate for channel impairments such as
skew, attenuation, group delay and crosstalk presented by the copper cable. They
are entirely analog for low power and small size, yet they deliver the industry’s
highest performance. They enable current and future DisplayPort traffic
to run on copper twinax cable just 2mm in diameter – 30% thinner than
fiber optics and 90% thinner than Category 6a structured cabling. Alternatively,
Q:Active technology can increase distance on traditional copper by as much
as 600 percent. This allows gamers, studios and stadiums to interconnect without
the hefty power consumption of fiber optic lasers and receivers or additional
electronic repeater boxes.
Rapid Broad-Market Adoption
Instat, a leading market research firm, forecasts that over 600 million DisplayPort
enabled devices will be shipped in 2012, a growth rate of 194% compounded
annually from 2008 to 2013. Applications for these cables include projection,
extreme gaming, rendering studios, supercomputing, HyperWalls, and stadiums.
Intersil’s Q:Active technology is a broadly deployed active cable format
with installations in Top 500 supplied supercomputers, raster image processors,
servers, storage farms and data centers worldwide. These switches and
supercomputers can consume up to 30,000 ports of Q:Active technology per individual
installation.
Pricing and More Information
Q:Active HD DisplayPort cable pricing starts at $89 per cable. For more
information please visit http://www.intersil.com/activecables
About Intersil
Intersil Corporation is a leader in the
design and manufacture of high-performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors.
The Company's products address some of the industry's fastest growing markets,
such as, flat panel displays, cell phones, other handheld systems, and notebooks.
Intersil’s product families address power management functions and analog
signal processing functions. Intersil products include ICs for battery
management, hot-plug controllers, linear regulators, power sequencers, supervisory
ICs, bridge drivers, PWM
controllers, switching DC/DC regulators, Zilker Labs Digital Power ICs and
power MOSFET drivers; optical storage laser diode drivers; DSL line drivers; D2Audio products; video and
high-performance operational amplifiers; high-speed
data converters; interface ICs; analog
switches and multiplexers; crosspoint switches; voice-over-IP devices; and
ICs for military, space
and radiation-hardened applications. For more information about Intersil or to
find out how to become a member of our winning team, visit the Company's web
site and career page at www.intersil.com.
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