Fast Charging
Alongside their new AMD-powered Blade 14 laptop, Razer today also used E3 2021 to announce a new, high-powered USB-C charger. The Razer GaN USB Type-C charger is a compact charging solution that is pocket-sized and can deliver up to 130 W of combined charging power across its two USB-C and two USB-A outputs. If you've ever owned one of the latest smartphones or Bluetooth 5.1 devices, it's likely to come with a USB Type-C charging port. The Type-C connector has become more popular as more and more powered devices come with Type-C. With the USB-IF announcing its specifications for the new USB-PD standard with support for up to 240 W, power supply engineers are increasingly using Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductors for more efficient and compact...
Qualcomm Announces Quick Charge 5 with SMB1396/SMB1398: PD-PPS Up to 100W
Today Qualcomm is announcing a new commercial fast charging solution in the form of Quick Charge 5, taking advantage of the latest technology developments in charging circuits and leveraging...
36 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/27/2020Lion Semi: How High-Efficiency ICs Enable Fast-Charging
The last few years have seen quite a large shift in the mobile market as smartphone vendors have engaged in a literal arms-race aiming for the fastest charging phones...
58 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/8/2020The Oppo Reno Ace: 90 Hz AMOLED 6.5-inch HDR10+ with 65W Charging
Today in China, top 5 smartphone company Oppo launched its latest flagship smartphone. The new Oppo Reno Ace goes above and beyond the Oppo Reno launched earlier in the...
24 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/10/2019USB-IF and Fast Charging: New Standard Logo with Wattage Listed
When discussing industry standards, the sexy ones are involved around performance: if you can breathe PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 into a sentence, people start listening. One of the...
28 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2018