Qualcomm’s 100W charging scheme will go from 0 to 50 in 5 minutes

In the constant progressive march of technology, it’s not often calling something “revolutionary,” but Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 5 could be just that. The new fast charging scheme promises to fully charge your phone in just 15 minutes and go from zero to 50 percent in five minutes. When the battery is below 50 percent, it will increase one percentage point every six seconds. Qualcomm calls it the “world’s fastest commercial charging solution” and will likely change the way you charge your phone.

Qualcomm’s surprising numbers are based on a 4500 mAh battery with a stacked cell configuration (called “2S” and “2SnP” on the slides), allowing it to pump 50W into each cell, for a total of 100W of power load. Qualcomm says the dual-cell battery architecture helps with charging efficiency, which is 70 percent higher and 10 ° C cooler than Quick Charge 4 (which is undoubtedly a three-year standard).

Quick Charge 5 will also support USB-PD, so you should be able to charge even bigger electronic devices at full speed. Qualcomm does great business with the brand, but in reality, as a USB-PD Programmable Power Supply (PPS) device, it should be able to negotiate the correct power and charge many non-Qualcomm Quick Charge 5 devices at top speed. . Actually, there’s nothing limiting it to a USB cable either. Wireless fast charging is also supported.

The most important feature of Quick Charge 5 over other fast charging solutions is that it will become general. Lately, we’ve seen similar high-power charging announcements from companies like Oppo, or Xiaomi’s 100W experimental solution last year, but Qualcomm’s technology, as it’s from Qualcomm, will see a wide commercial rollout. This is, after all, how Qualcomm works. Everyone needs a Qualcomm modem, so you could also buy the Qualcomm SoC, as it integrates best with the Qualcomm modem. While you are in the Qualcomm store, you could also pick up some Qualcomm antenna modules, can we interest you in the new Quick Charge 5 chips? Original equipment manufacturers can easily add Quick Charge 5 as an option for virtually all high-end Android phones, starting with the Snapdragon 865 and continuing on to “future premium and high-end Snapdragon mobile platforms.”

Fast charging has been one of my favorite features of modern smartphones for the past few years, and with Quick Charge 5, we are definitely getting to the point where user behavior regarding charging will change. When your phone fully charges in 15 minutes, it stops being something you do at night and starts to be something you can do while making your morning coffee. Connecting a phone at night no longer makes sense.

Qualcomm says the Quick Charge 5 chips, called “SMB1396” and “SMB1398”, are currently sampling and should appear on commercial devices in the third quarter of 2020.

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