The Alliance for Wireless Power and the Power Matters Alliance today agreed to merge operations.
In February 2014, these same two organizations agreed to work together to create a single wireless charging standard. That means a core charging standard supporting a wide range of consumer, medical, military, and industrial applications has already been established, called Rezence.
The organizations say the news has been in the works for a while, and the integration process is underway and will follow with a coordinated product roadmap. A4WP president Kamil Grajski and PMA president Ron Resnick will remain in executive positions as chairman and president, respectively.
The new organization claims to have more than 170 member companies, such as AT&T, Broadcom, Intel, MediaTek, Powermat, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, and Starbucks. The groups claim the merger will lead to better consumer access to wireless battery charging and power management products. The organizations said they’ll debut a new, branded organization later this year.
The Rezence standard competes with the Wireless Power Consortium’s Qi standard.
