Profile: Diodes Incorporated (DIOD.O)

Diodes Incorporated, incorporated in 1959, is a global designer, manufacturer, and supplier of application specific standard products within the broad discrete and analog semiconductor markets. These products include diodes, rectifiers, transistors, MOSFETs, protection devices, functional specific arrays, amplifiers and comparators, Hall effect sensors and temperature sensors, power management devices (including light emitting diode (LED) drivers), DC-DC switching and linear voltage regulators, voltage references, special function devices (including universal serial bus (USB) power switch, load switch, voltage supervisor, and motor controllers), and silicon wafers used to manufacture these products. The Company designs, manufactures, and markets these semiconductors focused on diverse end-use applications in the consumer electronics, computing, industrial, communications, and automotive sectors. In June 2008, the Company acquired Zetex plc.

The Company’s product line includes over 4,000 products. These products are designed for use in consumer devices, such as digital audio players, notebook computers, flat-panel displays, mobile handsets, digital cameras, and set-top boxes. The Company’s product line includes discrete semiconductor products, including performance Schottky rectifiers; performance Schottky diodes; Zener diodes and performance Zener diodes, including tight tolerance and low-operating current types; standard, fast, super-fast and ultra-fast recovery rectifiers; bridge rectifiers; switching diodes; small signal bipolar transistors; prebiased transistors; MOSFETs; thyristor surge protection devices, and transient voltage suppressors; complex high-density diode, transistor and mixed technology arrays, in multi-pin ultra-miniature surface-mount packages, including customer specific and function specific arrays; silicon wafers used in manufacturing these products, and power management devices and Hall effect sensors.

The Company’s operations include the domestic operations (Diodes Incorporated and Diodes FabTech Inc.) located in the United States, Asian operations (Diodes Taiwan Inc., located in Taipei, Taiwan, and Anachip Corp. located in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Shanghai Kai Hong Electronic Co., Ltd and Shanghai Kai Hong Technology Co., Ltd both located in Shanghai, China, and Diodes Hong Kong Limited located in Hong Kong, China) and European operation (Diodes Zetex Limited located in Oldham, England). The Company serves over 230 direct customers, which consist of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers. In addition, it has approximately 70 distributor customers worldwide, through which the Company indirectly serves over 10,000 customers.

The Company competes with Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, Infineon Technologies A.G., International Rectifier Corporation, ON Semiconductor Corporation, Philips Electronics N.V. (NXP), Rohm Electronics USA, LLC, Toshiba Corporation, and Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.