Celebrating a shipment of 50 million GaN units

vivo’s vision of cooperating with Navitas brings more convenience to users through leading technology, making chargers faster, lighter, and more environmentally friendly – highly-consistent with Navitas’ iconic mission and vision to ‘Electrify Our World’.

In January and April 2022, vivo and Navitas aligned their visions for fast and ultra-fast charging with new products successfully launched in mass production, all adopting Navitas’ next generation GaN power ICs – GaNFast with GaNSense. As a dedicated early-adopter of GaNSense technology, vivo first launched a 120W in-box ultra-fast charger, shipped with one of vivo’s latest flagship phone model, enabling 0-100% charging speed in only 19 minutes. Then, a dual-USB-C, 80W GaN charger shipped with vivo’s first 8”-screen foldable phone, supporting simultaneous fast-charging of two devices at a featherweight 122g. With a power density of 1W/cc, and fast-charge from 0-50% in only 17 minutes, this represents another alliance-milestone of ultra-portability and fast-charging.

“The cooperation with Navitas kicks off a new era for vivo and its historical upgrade of mobile-phone charging speed, said Senior Vice President & CTO at vivo, Yujian Shi. “Users can experience ultra-fast, ultra-portable charging on our new flagship phones thanks to Navitas’ GaNFast power ICs. We’re excited to partner with Navitas to leverage GaN technology for our customers – including GaN’s environmental benefits.”

Other recent announcements include high-power IC availability and dedicated design-centres for data centre and EV applications, highlighting the company’s growth beyond chargers, into high-reliability systems – backed by an industry-first, 20-year limited warranty.

“In terms of GaN’s market adoption over legacy silicon chips, we’ve gone from “if” and “when?” to “Now!”,” said Gene Sheridan, Navitas Co-Founder and CEO. “vivo is a pioneer in fast charging and we are very happy to present the 50M award to vivo for their partnership and vision. The same pioneering spirit can be seen from customers in our high-power expansion markets including data center, solar and EV applications. With over 50 million units shipped, each saving 4kg of CO2, the faster customers can adopt GaN, the better it will be for our environment. GaN could save up to 2.6 Gtons CO2 per year by 2050.”