Deals
Apple-Supplier Dialog Will Develop Chips With China's Tsinghua
- Spreadtrum & RDA and Dialog are considering setting up a JV
- Dialog helps with technology in return for access to China
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Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd. is teaming with Britain’s Dialog Semiconductor Plc. to develop smartphone chips, a deal that will help the government-linked Chinese technology giant expand its growing semiconductor empire.
Unigroup mobile-design subsidiary Spreadtrum & RDA and the British supplier of chips to Apple Inc.’s iPhones and iPads are considering a joint venture in eastern China, through which the pair will jointly design communications components. Dialog, which gets almost 70 percent of its revenue from Apple according to data compiled by Bloomberg, will help Unigroup with crucial mobile power management technology in return for bigger access to the Chinese smartphone and Internet of Things markets.