PowerPort Atom PD 2 Goes on Sale on April 29!

[rtena]

I only wish of a future where everything is USB-C. Like, wall chargers with 4 USB-C ports and you can carry USB-C cables for everything. I can only hope.

[TechMan]

It is gallium nitride… the size if it is what is throwing some of us off… it seems to large for a GaN Charger…

[gAnkster]

The Atom PD 1 gets as warm as many other USB-C PD chargers. While GaN tech makes the power transfer cooler, reducing the size does not. The two end up canceling each other out.

Instead of thinking of GaN as cooler think of it as smaller, but same temperature. If you tried the same thing with silicon you’d get more heat at a smaller size.

That’s the answer I was looking for. Well put as always @queuebitt

@joshuad11 - Not too warm, just warm. unexpectedly so. But the size/heat ratio makes sense as an explanation for this.

[gAnkster]

It is gallium nitride… the size if it is what is throwing some of us off… it seems to large for a GaN Charger…

Will, for a two port 60w PD charger it is pretty small compared to other chargers of the same spec

[Bluetus]

it seems to large for a GaN Charger…

Ohhh… thanks for the info, because I saw a photo of smaller version in some website, so that’s why I’m not sure if it’s the same product or has another version soon. It seem to say that it be lunch on April too lol