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Leak: Multiple brands could offer 100W charging in 2021
July 08, 2025
We’ve seen brands demonstrate 100W and 120W charging in recent years, and the newUSB 4 standardalso offers support for the former. Now, a new leak suggests that 100W charging will indeed be a commercial reality next year.
Frequent leaker Digital Chat Station reported onWeibo(via machine translation) that three out of four gaming phone manufacturers in China are “testing and promoting the commercialization” of 100W charging technology.
Furthermore, the tipster says this will be the main selling point of gaming phones released in Q1 2021, along with the expectedSnapdragon 875chipset.
The leaker notes that three out of four gaming phone brands in China are working on the tech. We’re guessing this means ASUS (although they’re Taiwanese), HONOR (Play), Xiaomi (Black Shark), nubia (Red Magic), and/or vivo (Iqoo).
Furthermore, both Xiaomi and vivo have demonstrated ultra-fast charging before, with Xiaomi showing off 100W charging andvivo touting 120W top-ups.
However, Xiaomi has also elaborated onseveral hurdlesfacing the tech right now, with battery degradation, safety, and several other factors at play. So we hope manufacturers solve these issues before adopting 100W charging solutions.
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