Apple Completes $600 M Deal with Dialog SemiconductorByNitish Singh-October 12, 2018.740 Apple is making a major investment from Dialog Semiconductor in the iPhone power management technology. Dialog will receive $300 million in cash for the deal and an additional $300 million for goods shipped to the tech giant. The business deal involves management production facilities which will be passed to the tech giant in Italy Germany and the U.K. Apple is expected to buy Dialog Semiconductor and gain access to assets and part of the current workforce. The shares of Dialog shot up 34 per cent after the launch, which is now their new peak since 2002. For the tech giant, the deal is a huge investment as it will gain access to dialog facilities in Europe. The deal will close as early as the first half of 2019 depending on regulatory approval. Dialog revealed last year that Apple had developed the technology to create its own power management chips, and would no longer require support from the chipmaker. The announcement caused the company’s shares to plunge. Dialog is responsible for the designs that are used in the power management chips seen in iPads and other devices currently produced by iPhones. The tech giant was the largest customer of Dialog and accounted for nearly 75 per cent of the chipmaker’s sales in 2016. The organization claims to have introduced additional security measures that will effectively prevent future Apt attacks. Many questions are still unanswered, because Asus did not want the incident to go public anyway. Following yesterday’s news about “ShadowHammer Operation has replied with a supportive message. The malicious attackers targeted a very small and unique user group, according to the Taiwanese company, leaving regular customers unaffected so that based on that fact their decision not to report the incident. Asus further claims to have patched the Live Update program that was used by the attackers as the payload wagon with version 3.6.8 solving all problems. Safe Devices for Asus Pc now! To ensure your computer is safe from any malicious programs, download the latest version of Live Update app. # cybersecurity#Asus#Asuslaptops pic.twitter.com/tcqNdMx0db Asus (@Asus) March 26, 2019 Kaspersky Labs made the announcement after telling Asus of last year’s ShadowHammer activity, and waiting for them to do something about it for more than two months. It seems as if Asus did not plan to let their customers know about this as Zdnet claims that they even tried to get the Russian security researchers to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Luckily Kaspersky behaved in an ethical manner and exposed the tale to the public opening the gates for regulatory agencies to investigate Asus. In the midst of all this are the usual Asus customers who have lost their trust in the vendor and have a host of questions that remain unanswered. For example, does the Live Update 3.6.8 make you safe if a previous version of the tool has downloaded the malware into the system? How did the hackers manage to access servers that modified Asus? Where did the people they wanted to target get their hands onto the Mac addresses? How many people have been affected during the attacks in 2018?