In the past few years, more and more independent design of Apple chips, such as the iPhone and iPad series A CPU, GPU, etc. Apple's next self-designed chip area seems to be battery and power management.Nikkei said Apple's power management chip 'Will be the most advanced in the industry'.
According to Apple's current plan, the company plans to use its own power management chip to replace some or half of currently used iPhone power management chips starting next year.Another source said Apple is indeed developing power management chips for the iPhone, but the introduction of time Uncertain, may be postponed until 2019.
Dialog is currently designing a power management chip for the iPhone, and if the report is true, Apple will not have to pay royalties to Dialog in the future, with Dialog shares plunging 15% after the Nikkei Asia Review was reported, but Apple and Dialog have not Official announcement of changes in the relations between the two parties.
In addition, like A11, A10 and other Apple-designed chips, Apple Power Management chip will be produced by TSMC.
More than 70% of Dialog's revenue came from Apple in 2016. Shares of Dialog fell as much as 36% after Apple first dropped out of Dialog in April to develop its own power management chip, and Dialog also tried in recent years Reducing the dependence on Apple and several other smartphones, for example, attempting to merge with Austria's sensor chip maker Ams AG in 2014 and trying to acquire Atmel in 2015, all failed.