RavPower’s tiny 45W gallium nitride charger almost sits flush with your wall

I did not expect wall chargers to be a hot tech topic as we close out 2018, but here we are. Gallium nitride (GaN) is a term you’re going to start hearing a lot more of; it’s spoken of by some as a replacement for silicon, although so far that is mostly manifesting itself in extremely small USB-C Power Delivery (PD) chargers. Which, well, are cool in their own way.

Anker was the first to get much attention in this field with its regular iPhone brick-sized 27W “Atom” GaN charger, with a larger two-port 60W charger set to come down the line. Now RavPower, a similar company to Anker in that it makes a wide range of affordable, well-regarded charging products, has entered the GaN arena with a 45W charger.

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