UNLEASHING PRODUCTIVITY: HOW SILICON MOTION'S LATEST INNOVATION TRANSFORMS WORKSPACE EFFICIENCY

From multiscreen working professionals required to juggle various applications, to game enthusiasts tackling the virtual realm, optimised connection and synergy are no longer a luxury, but rather an expectation and a necessity. To help meet this exponentially expanding need for seamless integration, the world’s leading provider of display interface and NAND flash controller solutions, Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (SiMotion), has unveiled a revolutionary new system-on-a-chip (SoC) for USB display interfaces – the SM770. An evolutionary leap in screen connectivity, the SM770 brings us one step closer to the hyper-efficient, multiscreen work environment of tomorrow.

THE ERA OF MULTISCREEN PRODUCTIVITY AND SILICON MOTION'S CHARGE

The shift toward multiscreen work is happening fast and its impact is seismic: no more does a professional have to limit himself to one single screen. Instead, at the same workstation, today’s professional has to juggle multiple tasks that demand an extended digital canvas. To cope with this paradigm shift, Silicon Motion has just introduced the SM770, the world’s first USB display interface SoC that will enable a new generation of cost-effective universal docking stations that can easily drive multiple 4K Ultra-High Definition Displays.

SM770: A CLOSER LOOK AT SILICON MOTION'S MASTERPIECE

The SM770 is the brain of the innovation; it is optimised for connecting up to three simultaneous 4K UHD displays. Its special feature is the use of Silicon Motion’s Content Adaptive Technology (CAT), which is a system of image and video compression algorithms designed to compress the display data, resulting in greatly reduced bandwidth use, with no visual compromise and ultra-low latency, to maintain workflow.

TAMPERING LATENCY: THE SILICON MOTION WAY

Latency: The pause that can throw you off your workflow. Thankfully, with the Silicon Motion-engineered SM770, no latency can get in your way. Data compression workload with 2nd generation CAT technology is optimised by shifting most of the processing workload to the hardware accelerator. This improves efficiency and greatly reduces the workload on the CPU, for a seamless multi-display experience.

A SYMPHONY OF SCREENS: FEATURES THAT SET SM770 APART

But the Silicon Motion SM770 isn’t just about supporting multiple displays: it’s about enhancing the multi-screen working environment with greater quality and flexibility: • Supports display on the first display along both the vertical and horizontal axis • Supports up to four independent displays • Allows the vertical flip of the first display or the second display • Allows up to two secondary displays in landscape mode Supports • Horizontal display • Mosaic display

• Support for three 4K @ 60 Hz or 2K @ 144 Hz screens. Crystal-clear video for any display connected to it.
• the speed of USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) that lets data rip through your devices and keeps your screens on pace.
• Bendy underlying connection options via PCI-E, USB, Ethernet or Wireless, and therefore cable-free for a nicer looking setup.
• Works on all major operating systems – Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and ChromeOS – so no professional will be left behind by software.

WIDENING THE HORIZON: BEYOND PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENTS

While it’s still focused on boosting the quality of pro workspaces, there’s nothing to stop content-creators, gamers and home entertainment fans from using a chip such as Silicon Motion’s SM770 to boost their setups, too. Maybe it won’t be the star of the show, but editing 4K video will be better on it, high-frame-rate gaming will look smoother, and your home cinema will be more immersive. Silicon Motion’s SM770 is just one example of how technology can improve quality of life in the digital age.

MOTION TOWARDS THE FUTURE

The SM770 might not, by itself, bring us all the way to that future – the technological barriers to seamless multitasking are not insurmountable – but what Silicon Motion has *motion*-ed us towards is possible. Our digital workspaces could become more fluid, more flexible, and more adaptable, perhaps scaling far beyond the current limitations of our bandwidth and usable monitors to become, finally, as boundless as our imaginations.

UNDERSTANDING MOTION: THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND SM770'S INNOVATION

But the SM770 also demonstrates that *motion* – the core concept behind Silicon Motion’s technological innovation – is an essential part of experiencing the benefits of the SM770. *Motion* – you can say ‘flow,’ if you like – is not really about the physical motion of people and things but about how far and how fast data, ideas and productive labour can move across the diverse array of screens and surfaces around which our lives are increasingly organised. Importantly, *motion* is also about the lack of stagnation in our changing relationship to digital spaces: the extent to which our work and play environments can move. With the SM770, Silicon Motion anticipates the multi-screen needs of tomorrow because they are actively transforming it into what it will be, ensuring that *motion* towards more immersive and effective work and play spaces continues.

The announcement of Silicon Motion’s SM770 doesn’t just represent another piece of technology, it is a proclamation of a new workplace, a new office of the future, of how motion allows for greater productivity across screens, no matter what work you do. It’s about how motion allows you, the consumer, to overcome the shackles of the desktop and the monitor, and create work that is faster, better and ultimately different.