South Korean tech large Samsung has developed a brand new wi-fi charging chip that can provide an improve to a lot quicker wi-fi charging.
Qi2 is coming to telephones in 2025, in addition to help for the brand new Qi2.2 wi-fi commonplace, which will probably be launched later this 12 months.
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The brand new chip, S2MIW06, is claimed to be able to wi-fi charging as much as 50W. It is a large enchancment over final 12 months’s top-of-the-line Samsung telephone, the Galaxy S24 Extremely, which solely supported 15W wi-fi charging.
Nevertheless, it’s unclear whether or not the brand new chip will probably be current in Samsung’s new Galaxy S25 telephones that will probably be unveiled subsequent week.
In line with earlier stories, the telephones is not going to have built-in help for Qi2 charging however hopefully, issues have modified since then and it could assist Samsung stand out in opposition to rivals akin to Apple and Google.
The know-how may additionally discover its means into different Samsung gadgets.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication M3 and was translated and tailored from Swedish.