Taiwanese manufacturer makes chip for DisplayPort 2.0 to HDMI 2.1 adapters

Parade Technologies has announced two converter chips that can be used to convert a DisplayPort 2.0 signal to HDMI 2.1. High refresh rates and Variable Refresh Rate are also supported.

Parade Technologies has started supplying samples of the converter chips. For example, manufacturers can implement it in a dongle to convert a DisplayPort 2.0 signal to an HDMI 2.1 signal. The Taiwanese manufacturer also recommends the converter chips for motherboards and docking stations.

Currently, there are no video cards with DisplayPort 2.0 outputs, but if such cards appear in the future, such an adapter could offer a solution to connect them to HDMI 2.1 televisions. Recent video cards from AMD and Nvidia are already equipped with HDMI 2.1 ports.

The PS195 and PS196 converter chips are fully compatible with DisplayPort 2.0 and HDMI 2.1 specifications, according to Parade Technologies. For example, DisplayPort’s Adaptive-Sync can be converted to VRR of the HDMI 2.1 specification. There is also support for 8k resolutions, high refresh rates and features such as Display Stream Compression. The converter chips have dimensions of 7x8mm and contain an Arm Cortex-M4 processor.

It is not yet known when products using the converter chips will be released. The PS195 and PS196 are the successors to the PS185 and PS186 for converting DisplayPort 1.4 to HDMI 2.0. The new chips also support the older DisplayPort and HDMI versions.