Anker’s Nano II 100W USB-C GaN charger went on sale and sold out quickly

At CES 2022, Anker declared an addition to its Nano II USB-C charger lineup with this more effective version sporting two USB-C ports able of outputting up to 100W, in addition an old college USB-A charging port. Now the $79 Anker Nano II 100W (also regarded as the Anker 736 charger) has popped up for sale on Amazon (via MacRumors), while it is presently showing marketed-out.

The Nano II chargers use the company’s 2nd-technology version of gallium nitride-based parts that switch older charger’s silicon components to pump out more ability in a more compact bundle with less heat. In accordance to Anker, the Nano II 100W is 34 per cent scaled-down than Apple’s 96W charger, with comparable capabilities additionally two additional ports that assistance you minimize the range of items you are going to need to have to hold all of your products powered up. 1 other additionally is that its rapid charging is appropriate with a vast array of products, with USB Energy Shipping 3. PPS (programmable ability typical), and Rapid Charge 3. assistance.

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The caveat with this charger is that its USB-C ports are able of up to 100W ability output — but which is only genuine when you have a person gadget plugged into one particular of them. Several notebooks and other equipment have to have significantly significantly less ability than that to charge or even fast cost, but it’s one thing to think about if you have a larger sized MacBook Pro. Applying each USB-C ports simultaneously cuts max output to 60W from the 1st slot and 40W from the 2nd — Anker has a chart to split it down further.

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Anker isn’t the only company making use of gallium nitride (GaN) for smaller, extra strong chargers — Apple’s initially brick with the tech is the 140W electric power provide that ships with the 16-inch MacBook Pro — but it has been in advance of the pack due to the fact displaying off its 1st GaN ability adapter in 2018.

In an job interview with The Verge EiC Nilay Patel on the Decoder podcast last fall, Anker CEO Steven Yang explained why his corporation has been so speedy to introduce GaN and iterate merchandise based on it.

Gallium nitride is a critical enabling technologies that hit the current market around three several years in the past, but you are previously speaking about the 3rd generation. Is gallium nitride a engineering that you have to devote engineering resources in? Is there a provider pipeline or a product science pipeline? How do you take care of that expense?

Anker was essentially the to start with to introduce gallium nitride to consumer electronics charging. The way we were equipped to do that was by partnering with the frontier chipset producers who developed the gallium nitride charging chip. We have been practically their alpha consumer. So when the chip was initial made, it’s a great deal of hoops to leap by means of to make it into a merchandise. That requires not only material science expertise, but also application know-how, procedure architecture expertise, and know-how about running warmth. It’s virtually a technique energy. We accumulate understanding in that, and couple that jointly with the gallium nitride chips and the maker to build them into products.

You will be looking at the GaN2 this calendar year at the 65-watt measurement and the 30-watt sizing. We have been doing work with Electricity Improvements for just about a calendar year on that. GaN2 is the manufacturer new technology of chips that we introduced in the middle of this year. GaN2’s 65-watt sizing was a fraction of the competition’s.

The rationale we had been equipped to do that is dependent on Electric power Innovations’ newest generation of their GaN2. We’ve been the sole spouse for practically a yr acquiring that — you will not be seeing related items coming from other brand names for at minimum 3 to six months for the reason that PI and Anker are working jointly, solely.

So Anker and PI have had an exclusive romance to acquire the following era GaN chipset, and then that window opens a few to 6 months later so other people today can acquire that chipset.

Yeah.

Anker US media relations head Tyler Mallery confirmed to The Verge that the charger did, in point, start and that Anker is ready for much more stock to arrive. The 736 charger is in small more than enough provide that it’s not even outlined on Anker’s website nevertheless, but if this is the charger you’ve been waiting around for, preserve an eye on that Amazon webpage to see when it returns.