Shaking Apple’s money tree

Tim Cook, chief executive, Apple Pic: Bloomberg

Imagination Technologies Group discovered how fickle life can be as an Apple supplier when it was ditched this month by the iPhone maker. More suppliers may suffer the same fate as the world’s largest technology company faces a shrinking number of semiconductor makers and expands into areas that need special chips designed in-house.

The Sunday Business Post reported last year how PCH, the global supply chain company founded by Corkman Liam Casey, lost ...