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Dialog Semiconductor PLC is a UK-based manufacturer of semiconductor based system solutions. The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom in Reading, with a global sales, R&D and marketing organization. Dialog creates highly integrated standard (ASSP) and custom (ASIC) mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs), optimised for smartphone, computing, IoT, LED Solid State Lighting (SSL) and smart home applications. Dialog operates a fabless business model, but maintains its own test and physical laboratories at its office in Kirchheim.In 2015, it had approximately $1.35 billion in revenue and was one of the fastest growing European public semiconductor companies. It currently has approximately 1,650 employees worldwide. The company is listed on the Frankfurt (FWB: DLG) stock exchange (Regulated Market, Prime Standard, ISIN GB0059822006) and is a member of the German TecDax index. On 10 February 2011, Dialog announced that it had completed a transaction to acquire SiTel Semiconductor B.V. ("SiTel"), a short-range wireless, digital cordless and VoIP technology company. In July 2013, Dialog announced that it has completed a transaction to acquire iWatt, an AC/DC power conversion and solid state lighting technologies company.Dialog Semiconductor is the exclusive designer of power management integrated circuits (PMICs) for the Apple iPhone, iPad, and Watch, which made up more than 70% of Dialog’s 2016 sales. Its share value halved from April to December 2017 after private bank Bankhaus Lampe changed its outlook for the company from “hold” to “sell” in the belief Apple would replace Dialog’s PMIC designs with its own, predicting in-house design would be part of a general strategic shift for Dialog’s main client: Apple had established its own PMIC design centres in Munich and California, and in April 2017, Apple graphics chip maker Imagination Technologies declared that Apple would be designing its graphics chips in-house by 2020.