Diodes Incorporated and its subsidiaries is a leading global manufacturer and
supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad
discrete, logic, analog and mixed-signal semiconductor markets. Diodes serves
the consumer electronics, computing, communications, industrial, and automotive
markets. Diodes’ products include diodes, rectifiers, transistors, MOSFETs,
protection devices, function-specific arrays, logic, amplifiers and comparators,
Hall-effect and temperature sensors, power management devices, including LED
drivers, AC-DC converters and controllers, DC-DC switching and linear voltage
regulators, and voltage references along with special function devices, such
as USB power switches, load switches, voltage supervisors, and motor controllers.
Diodes’ corporate headquarters and Americas’ sales office are located
in Plano, Texas and Milpitas, California. Design, marketing, and engineering
centers are located in Plano; Milpitas; Taipei, Taiwan; Taoyuan City, Taiwan;
Zhubei City, Taiwan; Manchester, England; and Neuhaus, Germany. Diodes’
wafer fabrication facilities are located in Manchester and Shanghai, China.
Diodes has assembly and test facilities located in Shanghai, Jinan, Chengdu,
and Yangzhou, China, as well as in Hong Kong, China, Neuhaus and Taipei. Additional
engineering, sales, warehouse, and logistics offices are located in Taipei;
Hong Kong; Manchester; Shanghai; Shenzhen, China; Seongnam-si, South Korea;
and Munich, Germany, with support offices throughout the world. We were incorporated
in 1959 in California and reincorporated in Delaware in 1968.
We design, manufacture and market these semiconductors for diverse end-use
applications. Semiconductors, which provide electronic signal amplification
and switching functions, are basic building-blocks that are incorporated into
almost every electronic device. We believe that our focus on application-specific
standard products utilizing innovative, highly efficient packaging and cost-effective
process technologies, coupled with our collaborative, customer-focused product
development, gives us a meaningful competitive advantage relative to other semiconductor
companies.
Our product portfolio addresses the design needs of advanced electronic equipment,
including high-volume consumer electronic devices such as digital media players,
smartphones, tablets, notebook computers, flat-panel displays, mobile handsets,
digital cameras and set-top boxes. We believe that we have particular strength
in designing innovative, highly power efficient semiconductors in miniature
packaging for applications with a critical need to minimize product size while
maximizing power density and overall performance, and at a lower cost than alternative
solutions.
Flexible, scalable and cost-effective manufacturing – Our manufacturing
operations are a core element of our success, and we have designed our manufacturing
base to allow us to respond quickly to changes in demand trends in the end-markets
we serve. For example, we have structured our assembly and test facilities to
enable us to rapidly and efficiently add capacity and adjust product mix to
meet shifts in customer demand and overall market trends. In 2011, we established
an additional manufacturing facility for semiconductor assembly and test in
Chengdu, China, which became fully production capable during the second half
of 2015.
Integrated packaging expertise – Our expertise in designing and manufacturing
innovative and proprietary packaging solutions enables us to package a variety
of different device functions into an assortment of packages ranging from miniature
chip-scale packaging to packages that integrate multiple separate discrete and/or
analog chips into a single semiconductor product called an array. Our ability
to design and manufacture multi-chip semiconductor solutions as well as advanced
integrated devices provides our customers with products of equivalent functionality
with fewer individual parts, and at lower overall cost, than alternative products.
This combination of integration, functionality and miniaturization makes our
products well suited for high-volume consumer electronic devices such as LED
televisions, LCD panels, set-top boxes and consumer portables such as smartphones,
tablets and notebooks.
Broad customer base and diverse end-markets – Our customers are comprised
of leading OEMs as well as major EMS providers. Overall, we serve over 375 direct
customers worldwide and tens of thousands of additional customers through our
122 distributors. Our products are ultimately used in end-products in a number
of markets served by our broad customer base, which we believe makes us less
susceptible to market fluctuations driven by either specific customers or specific
end-user applications.
Customer focused product development – Effective collaboration with our
customers and a commitment to customer service are essential elements of our
business. We believe focusing on dependable delivery and support tailored to
specific end-user applications has fostered deep customer relationships and
created a key competitive advantage for us in the highly fragmented discrete,
logic and analog semiconductor marketplace. We believe our close relationships
with our customers have provided us with keener insight into our customers’
product needs.
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