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It's been three years since the DisplayPort standard was last updated, so a replacement has been a long time coming. This week, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) officially announced the DisplayPort 2.0 specification, and it brings some key advantages over the current DisplayPort 1.4a standard. For starters, DisplayPort 2.0 triples the amount of available bandwidth compared to DisplayPort 1.4a. The current spec uses 8b/10b channel coding making for maximum bandwidth of 25.92 Gbps. DisplayPort 2.0, on the other hand, boosts the link rate to 20 Gbps/lane and uses 128b/132b channel encoding to deliver maxim bandwidth of 77.37 Gbps. What does this all mean in the real world? For...
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