Apple Inc. has decided to keep Dialog Semiconductor Plc as a supplier for power management chips through 2019 and 2020, laying to rest concerns that the iPhone maker would cut ties with the Reading, U.K.-based chipmaker, Reuters reported March 3.
Dialog CEO Jalal Bagherli told German weekly Euro am Sonntag that Apple has commissioned the company for chips for a number of devices, according to the news outlet.
The company expects to test a chip design for Apple in the second half of 2018, Bagherli said.
According to previous reports, Apple's planned in-house power management chips will be exclusively designed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which also supplies iPhone core processor chips, as well as Dialog's power management chips for iPhones.
