Watching movies on 4K television screens is truly a visual delight, the images are vivid, the details are impeccable and pictures so realistic, this is as good as it gets, you’d think. But things about to escalate to another level with the inevitable mass arrival of 8K TV’s.

There are already multiple brands in the market offering great viewing pleasure for the early purchasers, however Samsung being the perfectionist is advancing its 8K technology with the development of a new 8K display driver IC (DDI) that can help deliver real 8K resolution and intra-panel data transfer speed at up to 4-gigabit-per-second.

Samsung’s new DDI (S6CT93P) adopts the Unified Standard Interface for TV (USI-T) 2.0 that doubles the previous USI-T 1.0’s intra-panel speed of 2Gbps. The boost in the DDI’s data transfer capability enhances the efficiency of a display’s system performance and reduces the need for additional components. This also allows more streamlined product designs for slim bezel-less TVs with display sizes 65-inches and above.

Given that 8K resolution has four times the number of pixels than 4K UHD, the amount of image data to be transferred within a panel must increase accordingly, as well as the number of components to support that task. The 8K DDI’s advanced performance at 4Gbps intra-panel interface speed minimises the added clutter around the display panel.

The updated interface also supports a smart equalizer feature that utilises two-way channels between the timing controller and individual DDIs. Rather than calibrating each and every DDI manually, the smart EQ can program all DDIs in a panel simultaneously, reducing the possibility of bit errors and resources that are required for panel production.