If you've bought a new USB-C cable or charger and seen "USB-PD" on the charger's or cable's box, you may have wondered what exactly these letters stood for. The answer is USB Power Delivery, a ...
USB ports have quietly turned into the default power outlet for phones, laptops, headphones, and even monitors, but the ...
With the growing number of devices that most people use today, be it smartphones, smartwatches, laptops, wireless earbuds, and other gadgets, charging them quickly and efficiently becomes important.
How do you talk USB Power Delivery (PD)? Grab a PHY? Use a MCU with one built-in? Well, if you’re hardcore enough, you can do it with just a few resistors and GPIOs. [eeucalyptus] shows you their ...
Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...
BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The USB Promoter Group today announced the release of the USB Power Delivery (USB PD) Revision 3.1 specification, a major update to enable delivering up to 240W of ...
How many watts can a USB port actually output? The answer depends on your cable and protocol. Here is the ultimate guide to ...
USB Type-C is the newly introduced and powerful interconnect standard for USB. When paired with the new Power Delivery (PD) specification, Type-C offers enhancements to the existing USB 3.1 ...
USB-C eliminates proprietary barrel plug chargers that we’ve been using for laptops and myriads of other devices. It fights proprietary phone charger standards by explicitly making them non-compliant, ...
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced the RAA489118 buck-boost battery charger and the RAA489400 ...
With 60W of power and two USB Power Delivery ports, the Anker PowerPort Atom PD 2 is built to charge multiple USB-C gadgets at once. While it can't fully fast charge both a powerful laptop and ...