Dialog Semiconductor has announced a Bluetooth Smart development kit, with full support for Apple HomeKit, to accelerate development of smart home accessories. In a recent report on the connected home, BI Intelligence predicts that the smart home market will grow at an annual rate of 67% between now and 2019, resulting in 1.8bn accessories being shipped in that year.

Dialog Semiconductor is buying Atmel for $4.6bn. The UK-based company says the deal creates a global leader in both Power Management and Embedded Processing solutions able to pursue opportunities in the Mobile Power, IoT and Automotive customers. The combined company will address an attractive, fast growing market opportunity of approximately $20 billion by 2019.

Advances in sensor technology, integration and power management are enabling the future of wearable technology. By Mark de Clercq, ‎Product Marketing Group Manager at Dialog Semiconductor

Dialog Semiconductor has announced that Le Mobile & Information Technology has recently launched smartphones shipped with power adapters that contain Dialog’s iW1780+iW626 Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0 adapter chipset. Le Mobile has introduced the 'world’s first' ecosystem mobile phone brand, Le Superphone, including three flagship products: Le 1 Pro, Le Max, and Le 1. The Le Max is a high end device with a 6.33" Quad HD display, Snap...

Dialog Semiconductor has announced that Huawei’s new Honor 7 smartphones use its iW630+iW1780+iW671 Rapid Charge adapter chipset to enable Huawei’s Fast Charger Protocol (FCP). FCP is a proprietary protocol from Huawei, designed to charge smartphones and other mobile devices significantly faster than conventional USB charging technology. Dialog’s iW630+iW1780+iW671 chipset provides very high efficiency and high power density nee...

Dialog Semiconductor has introduced the DA9312, a PMIC that enables the design of smaller, thinner notebooks and tablets powered by dual cell stacked (2S) Li-ion or Li-Polymer batteries. The notebook industry is moving towards designs powered by 2-cell, rather than 3-cell batteries and tablets are moving from single cell to 2-cell batteries. Dialog calls its DA9312 the 'most integrated power management solution currently available'.

  Two power control integrated circuits that address the most critical reliability issue in white goods, while reducing manufacturers’ BOM costs without compromising power supply performance, have been introduced by Dialog Semiconductor. 

Dialog Semiconductor has announced that it is to purchase a 40% stake in Dyna Image, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lite-On Semiconductor, a member of Lite-On Group, in a deal that will close in June 2015. ShunSin Technology, a Foxconn subsidiary, plan to also take an equity position in Dyna Image. Dialog’s CEO, Jalal Bagherli, and the company’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, Mark Tyndall, will join the five-member boar...

Dialog Semiconductor has announced that its DA9210 IC (sub-PMIC) will deliver precision power management to the MediaTek processor in HTC’s latest smartphones, the HTC One M9+ and the HTC One E9+.

Dialog Semiconductor has released details of its DA14680 compact ‘Wearable-on-Chip’ Bluetooth Smart (v4.2) low power IC, which enables the user to create a hosted wearable device. It features flexible processing power, flash memory for near-unlimited execution space, dedicated circuitry for sensor control, analogue and digital peripherals optimised for wearables, and an advanced power management unit.

Low power, Bluetooth Smart SoC ICs, aimed at high volume, high growth consumer markets, have been released by Dialog Semiconductor. The DA14581, DA14582 and DA14583 SoCs, which expand the company’s SmartBond family, are claimed to be the smallest and lowest power wireless connectivity solutions for the IoT. Versions optimised for wireless charging and Remote Control Units (RCU) address markets that will ship over 1.5bn units per annum withi...

An SSL LED driver, designed to solve dimmer compatibility issues in challenging, low-voltage lighting applications, has been released by Dialog Semiconductor. The iW3688 single-stage LED driver is designed for applications up to 20W, including A-style, BR, candle, GU10 and PAR bulbs and T8 LED tubes, as well as external lighting ballast drivers. 

An MR16 SSL LED driver, designed to solve transformer and dimmer compatibility issues in challenging, low-voltage lighting applications, has been released by Dialog Semiconductor. To optimise low-voltage SSL bulbs for compatibility with almost any transformer (electronic or magnetic), the iW3662 utilises the company’s patent-pending digital control technology.

Dialog Semiconductor plc today announced that its custom-developed, configurable D2260 power management IC (PMIC) will power LG Electronics’ recently launched NUCLUN Octa-Core application processor.

A Chinese electronics company, Xiaomi, has included Dialog Semiconductor's Bluetooth SmartBond SoC in its Mi Band fitness tracking wrist band. The DA14580 enables the wearable device to deliver up to 30 days of battery power from a single charge, which the company claims is more than double the battery life of its closest competitor.

  The field of wearable technology is expanding rapidly but still faces challenges in power management. By Lauren Ofstedahl, Corporate Communications and Business Development Manager, Dialog Semiconductor.

Dialog Semiconductors has donated £40,000 to UTC Swindon for specialist equipment, as well as an additional £40,000 for the first academic year, it has been announced. Opening in September 2014 and catering for 600 students aged 14-19, the college will provide courses for young people who aspire to a career in engineering. Students at UTC Swindon will have the opportunity to gain the necessary skills across all the dive...

Dialog Semiconductor continues to expand its Rapid Charge mobile device adapter solutions with the launch of its MediaTek Pump Express Plus-compatible iW1788 AC/DC controller. Pump Express Plus is MediaTek’s proprietary fast charge protocol that supports high power chargers with an output of 15W or more and reduces typical mobile device recharge times by up to 50%.

Designed for the Chinese USB powered smartphone market, as well as tablets and emerging wearable devices, Dialog Semiconductor announce a highly efficient switching charger IC. The DA9150 features an integrated fuel gauge to measure the state of charge of the battery with 99% accuracy, allowing system firmware to maximise battery run time for consumers who increasingly depend on portable devices.

Targeting the growing market for PC peripherals in the office and home, Dialog Semiconductor's SmartBond DA14580 SoC is now being used in wireless keyboards. The SoC maximises battery lifetime with less than 5mA peak current consumption in active mode, and less than 600nA in sleep mode. The wireless keyboard reference design boasts low BoM cost, state-of-the-art SW flexibility and 2 LEDs for connection status and low battery i...