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A4WP and PMA Agree to Fully Merge

Jun 1, 2015, 2:10 PM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Jun 1, 2015, 2:13 PM

The Alliance for Wireless Power and the Power Matters Alliance today agreed to merge operations. In February 2014, these same two organizations agreed to work together to create a single wireless charging standard. That means a core charging standard supporting a wide range of consumer, medical, military, and industrial applications has already been established, called Rezence. The organizations say today's news has been in the works for a while, and the integration process is underway and will follow with a coordinated product roadmap. A4WP president Kamil Grajski and PMA president Ron Resnick will remain in executive positions as chairman and president, respectively. The new organization claims to have more than 170 member companies, such as AT&T, Broadcom, Intel, MediaTek, Powermat, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, and Starbucks. The groups claim the merger will lead to better consumer access to wireless battery charging and power management products. The organizations said they'll debut a new, branded organization later this year. The Rezence standard competes with the Wireless Power Consortium's Qi standard.

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Kaboodle

Jun 3, 2015, 12:54 AM

Arrrrgh!

It's time these companies decide which standard is actually better, and go with it. We need this to be industry standard so it can move forward. It's kinda sad, but I think whichever one Apple decides to support will probably win this battle.

gfondeur

It's sad but you so right on that

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