# Dialog Semiconductor acquires Creative Chips for $80M to boost IoT portfolio

Dialog Semiconductor has agreed to acquire Creative Chips GmbH, a fabless semiconductor company in Germany, for $80 million in cash, with up to $23 million contingent on revenue targets. The deal strengthens Dialog's industrial IoT capabilities.

- Type: Acquisition
- Announced: 2019-10-07
- Where: Bingen, Germany, Germany
- Value: $80.0M
- Status: announced
- Products: industrial Ethernet ICs, mixed-signal ICs, IO-Link ICs
- Sectors: [Semiconductors and Industrial Electronics](https://endata.com/sectors/semiconductors-electronics.md)

## Companies

- [Dialog Semiconductor Plc.](https://endata.com/companies/22743.md) (acquirer)
- [Creative Chips](https://endata.com/companies/42560.md) (target)

## Sources

- [eetimes.com](https://www.eetimes.com/dialog-continues-iot-push-acquires-creative-chips-for-80m/), 2019-10-07: "The acquisition of Creative Chips is instrumental for Dialog, giving it a strong foothold in the industrial IoT market"
- [accessnewswire.com](https://www.accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/computers-technology-and-internet/dialog-semiconductor-to-acquire-creative-chips-adding-industrial-i-562226), 2019-10-07: "The acquisition of Creative Chips is instrumental for Dialog, giving it a strong foothold in the industrial IoT market"
- [reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-creativechips-m-a-dialog-idUSKBN1WM0GN/), 2019-10-07: "The acquisition of Creative Chips is instrumental for Dialog, giving it a strong foothold in the IndustrialIoT market."
- [telecompaper.com](https://www.telecompaper.com/news/dialog-semiconductor-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-creative-chips--1311204), 2019-10-08: "Dialog Semiconductor signs definitive agreement to acquire Creative Chips"
- [news.pcim.mesago.com](https://news.pcim.mesago.com/dialog-semiconductor-acquires-the-german-semiconductor-manufacturer-creative-chips-a-dab7c094bfceaf1fdc62ae99cb038c6f/), 2019-11-21: "The acquisition is key to Dialog. Creative Chips gives Dialog a strong foothold in the IIoT market while complementing the current mixed-signal business very well."

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