Apple May Be Adding DisplayPort Out Support to the iPhone, iPad

Apple may be planning to add DisplayPort Out support to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, according to an AppleInsider report.

The site has discovered a job listing for a signal integrity and power integrity manager to join Apple's chip building team. The listing asked for experience in working with interface standards including DisplayPort.

Apple asks for SI experience in working with both serial and parallel data links, naming DisplayPort (a digital serial link for video that the company currently uses only on its Mac desktops and notebooks) and LPDDR2 (a parallel data bus used by the type of fast RAM used inside the iPad 2's A5 chip).

This indicates that Apple is likely working to add support for the DisplayPort video standard to upcoming versions of its SOC, perhaps as soon as the delivery of the upcoming A6.

Currently Apple only supports VGA and HDMI video out on its current iOS devices.

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