Two Big Wireless Charging Players Announce Plans to Merge

The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and the Power Matters Alliance (PMA) have announced plans to merge completely by the end of the year. This merging will lower the number of competitors from three to two, with the last remaining competitor of the new group being the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) and its Qi charging standard.

The merging with double the power that each of these groups has by giving each the resources, partnerships, and technologies they’ve earned and created on their own previously. Some of the partnerships shared between A4WP and PMA are AT&T, Qualcomm, Samsung and Powermat (the company that put charging mats in 200 Starbucks across the U.S.), and one key piece of tech shared by the two is the resonant technology that allows you to charge multiple devices on one charging pad at once.

Hopefully joining forces will benefit both parties in this situation, but more importantly, it will hopefully help us: the consumers. New technology available everywhere is a great deal for all of us. Here’s to wishing them the best in their new union!

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Source: TechnoBuffalo

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