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Apple supplier Dialog Semi hits revenue target
Published in Mobiles


Shrugs off Jobs' Mob downturn

Chip designer Dialog Semiconductor managed to hit its fourth-quarter revenue guidance despite a slump in iPhone sales at its main customer Apple.

Apple buys part of Dialog cheap
Published in News
Thursday, 11 October 2018 11:50

Apple buys part of Dialog cheap


After dumping the company as a supplier

Apple is to buy part of Dialog Semiconductor’s business in a $600 million deal after it knifed the company last year.

Dialog suffers from its Apple dependence
Published in Mobiles


Sees shares fall as Apple cuts orders


Shares in Dialog Semiconductor fell by 17 percent on Friday to a four year low after the Anglo-German chipmaker said its main customer Apple would cut orders for its power-management chips by around 30 percent this year.

Dialog expects Apple to order its chips at least until 2020
Published in PC Hardware


Jobs' Mob would never do an Imagination on us

Dialog Semiconductor expects Apple to use its chips for a significant proportion of its devices in 2019 and 2020 and has no fears that Jobs' Mob will dump it like Imagination, and invent its own chips.

Apple will create its own power management chips
Published in PC Hardware


Dialog faces night of the long knives

Yet another loyal Apple partner is suffering for failing to do what the company told it to do.

Apple likely to shaft Dialog Semiconductor
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 12 April 2017 10:30

Apple likely to shaft Dialog Semiconductor

Partner purge to keep ageing cash cow on life support

Fruity cargo-cult Apple is preparing to shaft yet another of its partners in a desperate deal to keep its iPhone cash-cow mooing.

Dialog does better than expected
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 07 October 2016 13:27

Dialog does better than expected


But Apple's iPhone 7 was not responsible

The Tame Apple Press has created a fake rise in the price of Apple shares by claiming that the success of its favourite toy maker is responsible for a surprise rise in the profits of the German Dialog Semiconductor.

Apple knock-on effect
Published in News
Thursday, 28 January 2016 12:55

Apple knock-on effect


Partners suffer

Apple’s “shock” announcement that its business is not growing anymore is having a major effect on all the companies it propped up and their rivals.

ARM under pressure after customers merge
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 21 September 2015 15:48

ARM under pressure after customers merge


Atmel and Dialog could be bad news


Chip designer Arm is under pressure after two of its customers decided to combine their businesses. Anglo-German Dialog Semiconductor wrote a cheque to buy US rival Atmel for $4.6bn.