At Computex in Taiwan, MediaTek announced the latest iteration of its Pump Express technology.
Now on version 3.0, the tech is reportedly able to charge a smartphone to 70 percent of its maximum battery capacity in 20 minutes, a speed that’s almost twice as fast as competing solutions like Qualcomm’s Quick Charge spec, according to the company.
Pump Express 3.0 is “the world’s first solution to enable direct charge through Type-C USB power delivery,” says MediaTek, a fact that may make the spec incompatible with the official USB-C standard.
Normally, MediaTek-equipped smartphones don’t make their way to North America, making this something of a moot announcement, but just earlier this month Sony announced that one of its latest Xperia smartphones, the Xperia XA, which is set to ship with a MediaTek Helio P10 SoC, will come to Canada later this summer.
The first devices to ship with Pump Express 3.0 on board will be smartphones with the company’s P20 series processors, which are set to arrive later this year.
[source]MediaTek[/source]
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