Apple just leaked a dual-port 35W USB-C charger that could clear up the GaN mystery

See this white brick? It places out a measly 30W of energy to a single gadget, but Apple prices $50 for it. Please don’t purchase one as a result of we now have agency proof that Apple is about to switch it with one thing a lot, a lot better — a 35W charger with two ports, doubtless powered by gallium nitride (GaN) expertise which may additionally make it smaller.

That’s the phrase from 9to5Mac, which acquired this specific scrap of data from by far probably the most dependable supply of Apple leaks: Apple’s personal web site. Apparently, the corporate by chance threw a help doc reside for an “Apple 35W Twin USB-C Port Energy Adapter,” and 9to5 managed to snap a screenshot earlier than it was pulled.

Screenshot by 9to5Mac

That is doubtless the “about 30W” GaN charger that analyst Ming-Chi Kuo tweeted about final month, which he mentioned would have “a brand new kind issue design” and arrive in 2022.

You might quick cost an iPhone 13 Professional Max and an Apple Watch on the identical time with that degree of energy, or an M1 MacBook Air and a watch, or an iPad and an Apple Watch, or a pair of iPhones, or an iPad Professional and an iPhone at a slower charge, or… it’s USB-C, so there are quite a lot of potentialities.

It wouldn’t be Apple’s first GaN charger — that might be the 140W energy adapter it shipped with the brand new 16-inch MacBook Professional. However except I’m mistaken, it could be the primary dual-port charger Apple has ever made and definitely the primary with USB-C.

The truth is, there’s a dual-USB-C-shaped gap seemingly ready for it within the Apple Retailer. Apple carries Belkin chargers which have a single USB-C port and a 32W charger with each USB-C and USB-A ports, however not Belkin’s dual-USB-C charger — and that’s Apple’s premier equipment associate we’re speaking about. You possibly can clearly discover fairly a number of dual-port USB-C chargers outdoors of the Apple Retailer, although, together with many with greater speeds.

Observe that this gadget would supply 35W complete, not 35W per port. 9to5Mac says the help doc states every port can function in one of many following 4 modes: both 5VDC/3A, 9VDC/3A, 15VDC/2.33A, or 20VDC/1.75A. That ought to simply permit two units to cost at 15W or one at 27W and one at 5W, however we’ll need to see which combos of units would possibly work.

The help doc doesn’t counsel when the charger would possibly arrive however does say {that a} USB-C cable is not going to be included.