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## Dialog at a glance and our markets 

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* Year-on-year growth 2011-12 

## 2012 financial highlights – a record year 

■ US$774 million revenue in 2012, up 47% over 2011 

■ Full-year 2012 net profit of US$62.5 million or 8.1% of sales, completing five years of successive profitable growth 

■ Full year gross margin of 37.8% 

■ Closing year cash balance of US$312 million 

■ Basic and diluted 2012 IFRS earnings per share (EPS) of 0.97 cents and 0.93 cents respectively 

## 2012 operational highlights 

■ Sustained high demand for our power management technologies from leading smartphone and tablet customers 

■ Momentum in our connectivity portfolio with the selection of our short-range wireless audio ICs, VoIP and DECT solutions by leading microphone, gaming and professional headset and cordless phone customers, including VTech and Jabra 

■ Continued success in broadening our Processor Partner Programme with companies including Intel, NVIDIA and Freescale. This includes the selection of our Power Management ICs (PMICs) by Freescale for a reference board using its i.MX series of multicore application processors to enable the rapid development of tablets, infotainment systems, media hubs and other smart devices 

■ Continuous innovation in our standard and custom product portfolios: 

– Our latest PMIC, featuring an innovative multiphase buck converter architecture to support the high currents increasingly required in multicore application processors for smartphones and tablets was sampled to key customers 

– Dialog continued partnering with TSMC on state-of-the-art 0.13 micron bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology to integrate higher voltage components into a smaller form factor, single-chip power management IC to support next generation smartphones and tablets 

– We licensed the ARM® Cortex™ M0 32-bit multicore processor for use in our next generation PMICs, targeting multicore smartphones, tablets and other embedded devices. The first of these PMICs was sampled in 2012 

## Our markets 

## Mobile: 

■ Power management ICs and audio CODECs for smartphones, tablets and Ultrabooks™ 

## Automotive and industrial: 

■ Custom motor control ICs for windscreen wipers and companion processor integrated power management and clock ICs for automotive infotainment systems 

■ Electronic ballasts for fluorescent or high-intensity industrial lighting and energy-efficient retrofit bulb LED lighting solutions 

## Connectivity: 

■ Single chip transceivers for DECT-based wireless microphones, headsets and gaming consoles 

■ SmartPulse™ short-range wireless ICs, based on the Ultra Low Energy DECT standard, for smart home applications 

■ Energy-efficient multicore Voice-over IP (VoIP) processors, audio codecs and amplifiers, interfacing with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and DECT, to enable headset and handset connectivity 

