DisplayLink and ROHM Semiconductor announced they will demonstrate USB power delivery solutions at CES integrating the ROHM BD-92101 USB power delivery chipset combined with USB Graphics and docking chipset solutions from DisplayLink in products at CES 2014. Notebooks, tablets, and peripherals such as hard disk drives, cameras, and more recently displays have derived power over USB 2.0 and 3.0 interfaces enabling simple connections for power and data eliminating the need for large cumbersome travel adapters. Mobile phones are now almost exclusively USB for charging and data transfer.

ROHM has developed chipsets to enable power over USB (USB Power Delivery) for notebooks, tablets, phones, monitors and peripherals such as docking stations delivering up to 100 Watts, 10 times the power of existing power solutions, while enabling USB3 SuperSpeed data over the same cable. The new ROHM BD-92101 USB-PD Controller chipset from ROHM is the first integrated solution to implement the USB Power Delivery specification. With up to 10 times the power of legacy solutions, it will deliver faster charging of mobile devices such as notebooks, tablets and phones while extending the breadth of peripherals that can be used over USB with a single cable.

Products utilizing the ROHM USB power delivery chipset will be available to users beginning in the second half of 2014.