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2023: The Year of NFC Wireless Charging

the NFC wireless charging specification [1 cm ],” said Peter Neger-Loibner, NFC
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and is vice chair of the NFC Forum Board product marketing manager at
of Directors. “We created the NFC wireless STMicroelectronics. “Using PCB or flex-PCB
charging specification to be a simple, certified antennas, these products can be an ideal fit
technology to wirelessly charge small IoT for complex form factors. It is this
devices using NFC when cables are not an convenience and versatility that make NFC For reader inquiries and address changes,
please contact: christiane.lockner@aspencore.com
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facto standard for powering small IoT devices Panthronics AG also added wireless
up to 3 W.” charging functionality to its product line. Its
next-generation system solutions include Aspencore Media GmbH
COMPLEMENTS QI PTX130W, an NFC wireless charging poller IC, Frankfurter Straße 211
NFC wireless charging complements the and PTX30W, a fully integrated listener IC. 63263 Neu-Isenburg
Germany
Wireless Power Consortium’s Qi wireless “Our goal is to simplify NFC wireless
charging standard and strengthens the overall charging technology, making things easier for EE TIMES EDITORIAL MANAGEMENT
Brett Brune, Editor-in-Chief, EE Times,
wireless charging ecosystem. Qi is focused our customers and accelerating its adoption brett.brune@aspencore.com
on wireless charging above 5 W, while NFC into new applications,” said Alessandro Goitre, Anne-Françoise Pelé, Editor-in-Chief, EE Times Europe,
afpele@aspencore.com
wireless charging currently targets 250- to director of product management at Echo Zhao, Chief Analyst, echo.zhao@aspencore.com
1,000-mW charging, with the potential to Panthronics. “This does not mean we compro- Yorbe Zhang, Head of AspenCore APAC,
increase support to at least 3 W. mise on performance; we continue to push the yorbe.zhang@aspencore.com
Qi and NFC already complement each boundaries on what is achievable. The appetite GLOBAL ASPENCORE EDITORS
other as an in-console solution. Qi chargers for leveraging the benefit of NFC wireless Matthew Burgess, matthew.burgess@aspencore.com
Anthea Chuang, anthea.chuang@aspencore.com
typically also implement NFC card protection. charging continues to grow. I think we’re Nitin Dahad, nitin.dahad@aspencore.com
Moreover, this NFC interface could wirelessly seeing the beginning of what will prove to be Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio,
maurizio.dipaolo@aspencore.com
charge items like automobile key fobs. an amazing era for NFC-based technology in Yvonne Geng, yvonne.geng@aspencore.com
The enterprise device market is also a digital styluses, wearables, smart glasses and Amy Guan, amy.guan@aspencore.com
significant opportunity for NFC wireless [smart] rings, hearables and medical sensors. Susan Hong, susan.hong@aspencore.com
Illumi Huang, illumi.huang@aspencore.com
charging technology, bringing advantages and All these devices will improve the customer Barbara Jorgensen, barb.jorgensen@aspencore.com
design savings. experience through NFC wireless charging.” Majeed Ahmad Kamran, majeed.kamran@aspencore.com
Clover Lee, clover.lee@aspencore.com
NFC wireless charging could serve as a Infineon Technologies is developing a new Shao Lefeng, lefeng.shao@aspencore.com
complementary power-charging source and NFC wireless charging turnkey solution with Jenny Liao, jenny.liao@aspencore.com
Elaine Lin, elaine.lin@aspencore.com
could help to address many enterprise-market an emphasis on the power density (received Luffy Liu, luffy.liu@aspencore.com
use cases once it matures above 3 W, accord- power/PCB size) and the integration of system Stefani Munoz, stefani.munoz@aspencore.com
ing to Marek Trusinski, engineering fellow, functions, such as thermal control and battery Challey Peng, challey.peng@aspencore.com
Gina Roos, gina.roos@aspencore.com
solutions architect, technology lead and NFC charging. Fendy Wang, fendy.wang@aspencore.com
subject matter expert at Zebra Technologies. “Our goal is to help customers achieve a Sally Ward-Foxton, sally.wardfoxton@aspencore.com
Demi Xia, demi.xia@aspencore.com
This is one of the reasons that plans call for very cost-effective implementation of NFC Franklin Zhao, franklin.zhao@aspencore.com
expanding NFC wireless charging beyond functions,” said Qi Zhu, director of product Momo Zhong, momo.zhong@aspencore.com
3 W to perhaps 5 W in the future, as enter- marketing and business development at CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
prise devices typically have higher charging Infineon. “Reducing the total ownership cost Christine Evans-Pughe, chrise-p@dircon.co.uk
requirements. is one aspect. The PCB size limitation of com- Robert Huntley, robert@seventyfourhundred.com
Saumitra Jagdale, saumitra@opencloudware.com
In his latest report on the global wireless pact devices is another reason customers are Egil Juliussen, egil@norskeagle.com
power market, Dinesh Kithany, chief analyst asking for a higher level of integration.” Stefano Lovati, slovati@gmail.com
Rebecca Pool, editorial@rebeccapool.com
at Wired and Wireless Technology, predicts Ann Thryft, athryft@earthlink.net
robust growth for the high-frequency–based COOPERATION MAKES A BETTER FUTURE PRODUCTION
wireless charging market, including NFC POSSIBLE Adeline Cannone, Design Director,
charging, with rapid adoption and a forecast It takes an enormous amount of work to set adeline@cannone.com
of 100 million receiver units by 2026. Given a firm foundation for an entire industry. The Lori O’Toole, Chief Copy Editor, lotoole@aspencore.com
Diana Scheben, Senior Copy Editor,
the pervasiveness of wireless power trans- NFC Forum brings together more than diana.scheben@aspencore.com
mitter units, such as smartphones and/or 300 organizations, with forum members SALES & MARKETING
tablets enabled with NFC, the opportunity for collaborating with dozens of technical organi- Christiane Lockner, christiane.lockner@aspencore.com
NFC charging could double the shipment of zations to support the NFC ecosystem. The Hufmann Agency, victoria@hufmann.info,
receiver units. “To ensure a use case can adopt a certain norbert@hufmann.info
Todd Bria, todd.bria@aspencore.com
technology where many different players
CHIP VENDORS LEAD THE WAY are involved, you need a reliable base that Cyrus Krohn, Vice President, Publisher — AspenCore
STMicroelectronics and NXP are among the enables interoperability among the different Copyright© All rights reserved. No part of this publication
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