VESA Releases the DockPort Standard

[WYP]

Back in February AMD announced Dockport, an extension to the DisplayPort standard which would add the data and power delivery functions of USB 3.1.

Today VESA has gave us an update on DockPort announcing that the optional standard has now been ratified and released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjOg0z2XzPE

This new extension of the DisplayPort standard is fully backward compatible with all existing DisplayPort devices. When a DockPort-enabled DisplayPort source, like a computer or tablet, is connected with a DockPort enabled DisplayPort sink, such as a display monitor or docking station, A/V plus USB data and power will be transferred over a common cable through a single connector. This in a world where technology is getting smaller and more mobile is becoming more and more necessary.

As computing platforms become increasingly mobile, it becomes necessary to reduce the number of external connectors,” explained Steve Belt, Corporate Vice President – Strategic Alliances & Solutions Enablement AMD, a VESA member company. “With DockPort, VESA has developed a technology standard that enhances elegant docking designs, reduces mobile form factors, and enriches the user experience with streamlined, one-cable access to a wide range of external displays, peripherals and storage.

DockPort is the first royalty-free industry standard that combines these three essential interface functions into a single connector. VESA first revealed its intention to develop this standard at the 2014 International Consumer Electrics Show. It anticipates that several vendors will demonstrate DockPort-enabled DisplayPort systems at Computex Taiwan, which officially begins today.

Until today, most mobile computing platforms required three separate interfaces to support power charging, data transmission and external video,” said Chris Griffith, Business Development Manager for Consumer and Computing Interface at Texas Instruments, a VESA member company. “With DockPort, VESA has elegantly merged this ungainly tangle of wires into a single, sleek connector, combining power charging with the industry’s most popular data transport—USB—and the industry’s highest-speed A/V transport—DisplayPort. DockPort can reduce system implementation cost as designers can reduce external connectors and simplify docking implementations.

VESA with DockPort and Adaptive Sync is obviously looking for DisplayPort to become the Future De facto standard for Display devices, which at present remains the only Standard which can display 4K at 60FPS and seems to continually be adding more and more advantages.

Special thanks also must go to AMD here, which helped develop both Adaptic Sync for their Free Sync tech and DockPort have done a lot to get the VESA standard this far ahead.

As always please post your comments below and thanks for reading.

Source - VESA

 

[barnsley]

This is cooler than I thought it would be

 

[WYP]

This is cooler than I thought it would be

It would be very handy on future tablets or phones. A mini DP for data, charging and a visual out port.

Its just a shame that TVs don't have Display ports, it is the only thing that really prevents this from progress.

 

[barnsley]

It would be very handy on future tablets or phones. A mini DP for data, charging and a visual out port.

Its just a shame that TVs don't have Display ports, it is the only thing that really prevents this from progress.

can't see why they won't in the future. It means they can make the tv even slimmer. I hope this does catch on as it'll make things like the macbook/ultrabook crowd even slimmer.