Dialog Semiconductor

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Dialog Semiconductor Plc
Renesas Electronics
Websiterenesas.com

Dialog Semiconductor Plc is an Anglo-German semiconductor-based system designer and manufacturer. 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.

Dialog operates a

fabless business model, but maintains its own test and physical laboratories in Kirchheim.[4] Since 2021, the company is a subsidiary of Renesas Electronics.[5]

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

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Dialog began trading as a public company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on 18 September 1999.[7]

In 2005, Jalal Bagherli was appointed as Dialog's CEO.[8] He had previously been CEO of Alphamosaic, a video processing chip specialist acquired by Broadcom in 2004.[9]

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.[10][11][12]

Acquisitions

Dialog system-on-chip

Dialog has made numerous acquisitions including:

  • 2011 - VoIP and wireless chipmaker SiTel Semiconductor for $86.5 million.[13]
  • 2013 - Dialog acquired
    IPO the prior year, for roughly $345 million, paying $310 million in cash and pledging an additional $35 million in contingent considerations.[14][15]
  • 2015 - Dialog made a $4.6 billion offer for Atmel.[16] This acquisition was cancelled in January 2016 when Atmel instead agreed to be purchased by Microchip for $3.56 billion in cash and stock.[17] To break the agreement, Atmel paid Dialog a termination fee of $137.3 million.[18]
  • 2017 - Silego Technology, a maker of configurable mixed-signal integrated circuits (CMICs), for $306 million, of which $276 would be paid in cash, with an additional contingent consideration of up to $30.4 million. The deal added consumer electronics companies like Fitbit, Garmin, and GoPro to Dialog's roster of customers.[19]
  • 2018 - Apple announced its intent to purchase part of Dialog's business in a $300 million cash deal.[20] Included in the deal was the transfer of 300 Dialog employees to Apple, which represented roughly 16% of Dialog's workforce. Apple also committed another $300 million to purchase Dialog products.[21] In April 2019, Dialog and Apple completed the workforce and intellectual property transfer aspects of the deal.[22]
  • 2019 - Dialog agreed to buy Silicon Motion's FCI mobile communications product line for $45 million. The deal expanded Dialog's range of low-power connected devices by adding FCI's battery-operated Wi-Fi Internet of Things controllers to its existing line of Bluetooth products. The acquisition also added roughly 100 engineers, based in South Korea, to Dialog's workforce.[23][24]
  • 2019 - Dialog agreed to buy Germany’s Creative Chips as part of its push into low-energy connectivity used for devices in the internet of things (IoT). Dialog paid $80 million for the acquisition, with an additional consideration of $23 million based on revenues targets for the next two years.[25][26]
  • 2020 - Dialog bought US-based Adesto Technologies, a provider of application-specific semiconductors and embedded systems for the Industrial IoT, for $500 million.[27]
  • 2021 - In February 2021, Renesas announced that it has agreed to buy Dialog Semiconductor for $5.9 billion.

At that point, Jalal Bagherli held more than 500,000 Dialog shares.[28]

Products

Dialog sold a range of products, such as PMICs targeted at the automotives and wearable industry,

IoT-Devices, were also offered alongside LED-Driver,[34][35] USB power delivery controller[36] as well as Audio CODECs.[37] In 2020 Dialog licensed its CBRAM to GlobalFoundries.[38][39]

References

  1. ^ "Board of Directors". Dialog Semiconductor. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "Management Team". Dialog Semiconductor. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Dialog Semiconductor 2020 Annual Report" (PDF). Dialog Semiconductor. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  4. ^ sysadmin (23 March 2015). "Test and Physical Laboratories". Dialog Semiconductor. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  5. ^ Flaherty, Nick (31 August 2021). "Renesas completes €4.8bn acquisition of Dialog Semiconductor with management change". eeNews Europe. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
  6. ^ "Dialog Semiconductor -- SEC Form 20-F". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  7. ^ "IPOs: Calendar - Yahoo Finance". Yahoo finance. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  8. ^ Clarke, Peter. "Dialog's CEO Lays Ambitious Plans". EETimes. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  9. ^ "Electronics industry must side with China in trade war, says Dialog's boss". eeNews Analog. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  10. ^ Auchard, Eric; Wolde, Harro Ten (12 April 2017). "Apple may ditch Dialog, analyst says, hitting chipmaker's shares". Reuters. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Dahad, Nitin (16 April 2019). "Dialog PMIC Team Now Officially Apple Staff". Eetimes.com. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  13. ^ Manners, David (10 February 2011). "Dialog buys SiTel". Electronics Weekly. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  14. ^ "Xconomy: Dialog Semiconductor Acquires iWatt for $345,000,000". Xconomy. 18 July 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
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    . Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  16. ^ "Dialog Semiconductor to buy U.S. peer Atmel for $4.6 billion". Reuters. 20 September 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  17. ^ Assis, Claudia. "Microchip Technology buys chip maker Atmel in $3.56 billion deal". MarketWatch. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  18. ^ Armental, Maria (14 January 2016). "Dialog Semiconductor Declines to Raise Bid for Atmel". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  19. ^ "Dialog Semiconductor to buy Silego to expand into Internet of Things". Reuters. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  20. ^ Byford, Sam (11 October 2018). "Apple buys part of chipmaker Dialog for $300 million". The Verge. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  21. ^ "Apple inks $600M deal to license IP, acquire assets and talent from Dialog to expand chipmaking in Europe". TechCrunch. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  22. ^ "Dialog completes Apple deal with transfer of 300 staff". eeNewsAnalog. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  23. ^ GmbH, finanzen net. "Dialog To Buy Silicon Motion's Mobile Communications Business - Quick Facts | Markets Insider". Markets Insider. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  24. ^ "Dialog Semi expands into Internet of Things with Silicon Motion deal". Reuters. 7 March 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  25. ^ "Dialog Semiconductor acquires Germany's Creative Chips". Reuters. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  26. ^ "Dialog Semiconductor will buy Creative Chips, expanding into industrial IoT". Techeu. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  27. ^ "Dialog snaps up Adesto for $500 million". Omnisperience. 21 February 2020.
  28. ^ "Investor Relations | Dialog". 7 February 2024.
  29. ^ "Dialog Designs New PMICs to Help Cars Be Smarter, Not Hotter". allaboutcircuits.com. 20 August 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  30. ^ "Dialog powers up PMIC flexibility for mobiles". eetimes.com. 10 February 2009. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  31. ^ "Apple gets critical iPhone technology in $600 million Dialog deal". reuters.com. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  32. ^ "Dialog Semiconductor and TDK to Deliver World's Smallest Point of Load DC-DC Converter Solutions". signalintegrityjournal.com. 21 July 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  33. ^ "Dialog Semiconductor Shrinks PSU Size with Zero Voltage Switching". allaboutcircuits.com. 16 July 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  34. ^ "Dialog Semiconductor's IO-Link ICs Bring Connectivity to IIoT Sensors and Actuators". allaboutcircuits.com. 26 February 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  35. ^ "Dialog improves LED dimmer compatibility". electronicsweekly.com. 5 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  36. ^ "USB Power Delivery: A New USB Power Delivery 3.0 Controller from Dialog Semiconductor". allaboutcircuits.com. 2 January 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  37. ^ "Dialog Semiconductor Offers Audio Codecs That Negate Loud Noises". electronicdesign.com. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  38. ^ "Dialog Semi, GLOBALFOUNDRIES Reach Agreement to License CBRAM Technology". embeddedcomputing.com. 19 October 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  39. ^ "Dialog licenses non-volatile ReRAM technology to Globalfoundries for 22FDX platform". digitimes.com. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
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