Best of 2016: Fast Charger for Mobiles Optimizes Power Usage (.PDF Download)

    Nov. 18, 2016

    Many power-IC announcements are made through the course of a year, which makes it very difficult to narrow a choice of “best” down to just one product. Nonetheless, the “fast charger” reference design developed jointly by Power Integrations and Cypress Semiconductor stood out in 2016. The technology has started to find its way into smartphones, and will no doubt see greater use in the near future...

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