Premier Farnell announces global franchise agreement with Dialog Semiconductor

Premier Farnell, the Development Distributor, is today announcing a new global franchise agreement with Dialog Semiconductor. The agreement further enhances Premier Farnell’s semiconductor power management and wireless product ranges.

Dialog Semiconductor products offer high performance power saving solutions, particularly for smartphones, power adapters, solid state lighting and emerging IoT applications. They bring decades of experience to the rapid development of ICs while providing flexible and dynamic support in key product areas such as power management, power conversion and connectivity.

The addition of Dialog Semiconductor ranges broadens Premier Farnell’s offering for electronic design engineers developing products for home appliances, networking, smart home, smart lighting and smart meter markets.

Simon Meadmore, Global Head of Semiconductors, Premier Farnell, said: “As the Development Distributor, we are committed to working with our customers to understand their design requirements and helping them to develop their products and businesses. One way we do this is by providing a wide product range together with leading technical expertise. This new agreement expands our product range, and coupled with Dialog Semiconductor’s advanced system-level knowhow, deep portfolio of intellectual property and mixed signal innovation, further enables us to provide a full service solution for customers. We have extensive experience in supporting our customers from design to initial production, and now, as part of the Avnet group, we can guide our customers as they take their products to high volume production, providing a true end-to-end solution.”

Tom Sandoval, Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales, Dialog Semiconductor, said: “We are excited about our new partnership with Premier Farnell and the associated synergies with Avnet, our exclusive WW broad channel distributor. This agreement enables a wider community of customers a true prototype to production channel for Dialog’s leading products and technologies.”

For more information or to view the Dialog Semiconductor range please visit Farnell element14 in Europe, Newark element14 in North America and element14 in Asia Pacific.