Two wireless charging standards organizations merged to create a unified standard

Beijing time on January 7th message, the two largest wireless chargingstandard arrangement of the Alliance for Wireless Power (referred to as"A4WP") and Power Matters Alliance (referred to as "PMA") announced, will merge into an arrangement, trying to get people to leave the wired charging.

The two big two wireless charging standards organizations merged to create a unified standard build unified specification (picture from Yahoo)

Two arrange said, after the two sides merged into a new organization, will accelerate the speed of wireless charging equipment throughout in the consumer electronics market. Market research firm IHS is expected, the size of the global wireless charging market in 2018 will reach 8500000000 U.S. dollars.

In fact, A4WP and PMA last year has now agreed to insure the twoarrangement specification can be compatible with each other. In addition to A4WP and PMA, the global wireless charging industry another arrangement of the Wireless Power Consortium specification, the main supporters for Nokiaand Philips, wireless charging standard implementation of the "Qi".

Reportedly, the main support A4WP for Intel, Qualcomm and Samsung, PMA's core supporters, including Procter & Gamble and Starbucks such as A4WPand PMA, the merger will be completed this year.