Daily Trivia : How powerful is our USB-C Charger?

Daily Trivia : How powerful is our USB-C Charger?

The charger you’re using to charge your iphone is likely more powerful than the computer on Apollo 11 that guided the first moon landing.

When considering RAM, clock speed, program storage space, and a few other factors, modern USB-C chargers are approximately 563 times faster than the Apollo computer.

This is how fast the technology envolve in such short time, Apollo Moon landing was in 1969, in the timespan of 50+ years, the used to be hard to access technology is now cost penny and used in our daily life.

For those who wonder why we need a tiny computer inside our USB-C Charger, this is because USB-C PD (Power Delivery) Charger can support multiple voltage from 5V to 20V for higher power equipment so you can charge your phone and even your laptop. How the charger know what power it should give you? by running a program inside that computer and constantly communicate with the device itself.

Hope you learn something new today !!