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These are the six companies that depend on Apple for half to three-quarters of their sales

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<p>Update: The <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/qualcomms-apple-bills-may-pile-up-1492162382?mod=e2tw" target="_blank">WSJ[/url] reports that Apple is withholding licensing fees from Qualcomm pending resolution of the <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/qualcomm/" target="_blank">legal dispute[/url] between the two companies. A source estimates that Apple accounts for around 12% of the company’s total revenue. Qualcomm’s share price is down 19% so far this year.</p>
<p>We <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/03/apple-to-stop-using-imagination-technologies-gpu-tech-within-two-years-img-stock-falls-by-70-percent/" target="_blank">saw recently[/url] the impact on the share price of Imagination Technologies when Apple announced that it expected to stop using the company’s GPU tech within two years. The stock plummeted by 70%, reducing its market valuation by hundred of millions of dollars.</p>
<p>Not surprising when it turns out that royalty payments from Apple on the company’s chip designs forms almost half of the company’s income – and it is not the only company to be so heavily dependent on Apple’s business …</p>
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