INVESTOR CONCERNS
Dialog expects chip deal with Apple
Frankfurt — Dialog Semiconductor expects Apple, its top customer, to use its chips for a significant proportion of its devices in 2019 and 2020, CE Jalal Bagherli has told a German newspaper. "Apple at the start of the year commissioned us with the design of chips for many devices for 2019 and 2020," weekly Euro am Sonntag quoted Bagherli as saying in an interview published on Saturday, without providing details. Dialog’s stock has lost more than half its value over the past year on investor concerns that Apple is working on its own battery-saving chips for iPhones. Analysts believe Dialog derives more than half its revenue from supplying Apple with power management integrated circuits. Dialog in December acknowledged that Apple could develop its own power chips. It said at the time there was no risk to its supply deals in 2018 and that it was in the advanced stages of working with Apple on designing "2019-type products", which could lead to commercial contracts by March. "Negotiati...
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