Is Apple Set to Join the GaN Revolution?
Here at AUKEY, we‘ve been very interested to hear rumors that Apple will potentially release a gallium nitride (GaN) charger sometime later this year.
AUKEY has been one of the pioneers in this space, and it‘s very exciting indeed to hear major players like Apple are planning to join the fray.
The source also mentions that numerous other tech giants, including Samsung, Huawei, and Oppo, are also looking to switch to GaN for their chargers. Xiaomi has already released such a charger (a 65W model designed primarily to fast-charge their Mi 10 Pro smartphone).
We‘ll have to wait and see whether these various rumors come to fruition or not, but it does seem like a trend is in progress. Early adopters like AUKEY have already established that GaN technology can bring significant benefits in terms of size and weight, and the media reaction to our Omnia series of GaN chargers displayed at CES 2020 was very positive. Given that the concept is now well-proven and consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of GaN, it‘s not surprising that the big boys would start to wake up and take notice.
It should be noted that chargers using AUKEY‘s GaN-based OmniaChip have the additional advantage of Dynamic Detect, which allows for the smart allocation of power across multiple ports. This is a technology that the rumored GaN chargers from the likes of Apple and Samsung are likely to lack (Xiaomi‘s GaN charger, for example, is single-port only).
With regards to Apple, they are one of the few tech companies that makes use of USB Power Delivery across their entire range (including all recent iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks). In other words, the same charger that powers a MacBook Pro can also be used to fast-charge an iPhone or iPad.
The trouble is that current MacBook chargers still use silicon circuity and are pretty bulky, so you wouldn‘t necessarily want to carry that same charger around just to charge your phone. However, with GaN chargers (such as AUKEY‘s upcoming Omnia Mix 65W and Omnia Duo 65W), the charger is so compact and lightweight that it blurs the distinction between laptop charger and phone charger, bringing in a new era of universal chargers. This is surely one of the reasons why Apple would be interested in developing GaN circuitry.
We have always been big believers in the potential of GaN, so it‘s very exciting to see so many industry giants taking notice and joining the GaN revolution.
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