Here’s how Apple supplier TDK plans to change the smartphone game

Forget bulky devices and drained batteries. According to a report in Bloomberg, the world’s largest smartphone battery maker TDK Corp is seeing surging inquiries in Asia into a new lineup of smartphone batteries that it hopes will become a game-changer. In the first half of 2023, the company began shipping small-size lithium-ion batteries using silicon electrodes, manufactured by Hong Kong-based subsidiary Amperex Technology Ltd (ATL). This game-changer technology is reported to promise 10% more power in sleek, slim devices, shaking up the saturated smartphone market.

Noboru Saito, company’s 52-year-old CEO said in an interview to the publication, “We need to assume that other companies will come into this space, and we need to develop the next, followed by the next, technology to differentiate ourselves and keep our lead from shrinking.” “There’s room for the technology to evolve further,” he added.