Dialog Semiconductor

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Dialog Semiconductor PLC
Type Subsidiary
Industry Electrical engineering
Founded1985;38 years ago (1985)
Headquarters Reading, United Kingdom (operational), London, United Kingdom (registered office)
Key people
Rich Beyer (Chairman), [1] Jalal Bagherli (CEO), [2] Wissam Jabre (CFO), [2] Mark Tyndall (SVP Corporate Development) [2]
Products Semiconductors, integrated circuits
RevenueUS$ 1.566 billion (2019) [3]
US$ 379.8 million (2019) [4]
US$ 301.4 million (2019) [5]
Total assets US$ 2,177 million (2019) [5]
Total equity US$ 1,573 million (2019) [5]
Number of employees
1850 [3]
Parent Renesas Electronics
Website www.renesas.com

Dialog Semiconductor PLC is an American founded UK-Domiciled manufacturer of semiconductor-based system solutions.[ clarification needed ] The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom in Reading, with a global sales, R&D and marketing organization. Dialog creates highly integrated application-specific standard product (ASSP) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs), optimised for smartphones, computing, Internet of Things devices, LED solid-state lighting (SSL), and smart home applications.

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Dialog operates a fabless business model, but maintains its own test and physical laboratories in Kirchheim. [6]

History

Dialog Semiconductor was created in May 1985 as IMP (UK) Limited, the European subsidiary of U.S.-based International Microelectric Products, Inc. In late 1989, Daimler-Benz (now Daimler AG) acquired IMP (UK) and folded the business into subsidiary Temic Telefunken Microelectric GmbH. In March 1998, Apax Partners, Adtran, and Ericsson provided funding for the subsidiary (then named Dialogue Semiconductors) to separate from Daimler and form an independent company. [7] [ better source needed ]

Dialog began trading as a public company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on 18 September 1999. [8]

In 2005, Jalal Bagherli was appointed as Dialog's CEO. [9] He had previously been CEO of Alphamosaic, a video processing chip specialist acquired by Broadcom in 2004. [10]

Since 2007, Dialog Semiconductor has been the exclusive supplier of power management integrated circuits (PMICs) for the Apple iPhone, iPad, and Watch. Apple comprised 74% of Dialog's sales in 2016. [11] [12] [13]

Acquisitions

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Dialog system-on-chip

Dialog has made numerous acquisitions including:

At that point, Jalal Bagherli held more than 500,000 Dialog shares. [29]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Management Team". Dialog Semiconductor. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  3. 1 2 Cano, Jose (8 April 2019). "Dialog Semiconductor Announces Closing of Strategic Partnership and Technology Licensing deal with Apple". NASDAQ (Press release).
  4. ↑ "Dialog Semiconductor reports results for the fourth quarter and year ended 31 December 2019" (PDF). Dialog Semiconductor. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 "Annual report and accounts 2019" (PDF). Dialog Semiconductor. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  6. ↑ sysadmin (23 March 2015). "Test and Physical Laboratories". Dialog Semiconductor. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
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  12. ↑ Ting-Fang, Cheng (30 November 2017). "Apple to design power chips in-house as early as 2018: Sources". Nikkei Asian Review. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
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