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Exhibit 99.1
Diodes Incorporated Announces Logic Products that Provide Upgrade for Industry Standard Parts
Diodes Incorporated expands into a new semiconductor category with its first standard logic product family
Dallas, Texas June 4, 2010 Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD), a leading global
manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad
discrete and analog semiconductor markets, today has released its very first family of single-gate
logic products. Built on an advanced 5V CMOS process and offering performance enhancements over
existing alternatives, the 74LVC1Gxx series provides users with the eight most popular standard
logic functions in SOT25 and SOT353 package options, and the 74LVCE1GXX series offers enhanced
performance versions of these same functions.
Dr. Keh-Shew Lu, President and Chief Executive Officer of Diodes Incorporated said, Im pleased to
announce Diodes entry into the standard logic market. The logic market represents a natural fit
for Diodes strategic focus on high-volume standard products, and expands our serviceable available
market by over 15% to an approximate $20 billion annual SAM. Furthermore, there are strong
packaging synergies with our existing Analog and Discrete product lines. Many current logic
suppliers are dependent on packaging subcontractors, and customers are seeing extended industry
leadtimes on these products. Diodes has its own world-class cost-effective, high-volume assembly
facility thats well suited to the manufacture of low pin-count SOT25 and SOT353 packages. Were
pleased to be able to leverage this capability to provide users with an alternative source of
quality, high-performance logic products.
Suitable for use in a variety of communication, computing, consumer and networking equipment, the
initial Logic product offering covers AND, NAND, OR, NOR, XOR, inversion and buffering functions.
The single-gate products are cost effective replacements for industry standard parts in
point-of-application general purpose logic, level shifting and signal isolation applications.
At 1.65V to 5.5V, the operating voltage range of the 74LVC1Gxx series is wide, enabling it to
support both portable battery operated and traditional 5V applications. To address higher
performance application requirements, the 74LVCE1Gxx extended specification products operate down
to 1.4V, and provide a 30% enhancement in switching speeds at 1.8V as compared to the standard LVC
family. Both families have 5.5V tolerant inputs, enabling the creation of voltage translation
solutions.
In many applications, the logic products will draw less than 1µA of supply current, ensuring low
power consumption. Their IOFF output circuitry means that the output is disabled when
the device is powered down, preventing damaging backflow current from entering the device or
unnecessarily loading shared signal lines. Further information is available on the Companys
website at www.diodes.com/logic.
About Diodes Incorporated
Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD), a Standard and Poors SmallCap 600 and Russell 3000 Index
company, is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific
standard products within the broad discrete, logic, and analog semiconductor markets. Diodes
serves the consumer electronics, computing, communications, industrial, and automotive markets.
Diodes products include diodes, rectifiers, transistors, MOSFETs, protection devices, functional
specific arrays, single gate logic, amplifiers and comparators, Hall-effect and temperature
sensors; power management devices, including LED drivers, 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. The Companys corporate headquarters,
logistics center, and Americas sales office are located in Dallas, Texas. Design, marketing, and
engineering centers are located in Dallas; San Jose, California; Taipei, Taiwan; Manchester,
England; and Neuhaus, Germany. The Companys wafer fabrication facilities are located in Kansas
City, Missouri and Manchester, with two manufacturing facilities located in Shanghai, China,
another in Neuhaus, and a joint venture facility located in Chengdu, China. Additional
engineering, sales, warehouse, and logistics offices are located in Taipei; Hong Kong; Manchester;
and Munich, Germany; with support offices located throughout the world. For further information,
including SEC filings, visit the Companys website at http://www.diodes.com.
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Company Contact:
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Investor Relations Contact: | |
Diodes Incorporated
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Shelton Group | |
Julie Holland
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Leanne K. Sievers | |
VP, Worldwide Analog Products
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EVP, Investor Relations | |
P: 972-385-2810
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P: 949-224-3874 | |
E: pressinquiries@diodes.com
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E: lsievers@sheltongroup.com |