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Diodes, Inc. Promotes Steven Ho to Asia President and VP, Asia Sales & Marketing

Jun 7, 2007
DALLAS, Jun 07, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 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 announced the promotion of Steven Ho to Asia President and Vice President of Asia Sales and Marketing.

Mr. Ho has previously served as Vice-President, Asia Sales for the Company since 2005, and as General Manager of Diodes-Taiwan since 1991. Mr. Ho also serves as a Director of two of the Company's Asian subsidiaries: Diodes-Hong Kong and Diodes-Anachip.

"During his long career with Diodes, Inc., Mr. Ho has made important contributions toward the growth of our business in Asia," said Dr. Keh-Shew Lu, President and Chief Executive Officer. "We are pleased to promote him to President of our Asia operations and we are very confident that his proven experience and leadership skills will continue to make a valuable contribution to the success of our business, as we extend our leadership position in the high-quality application specific semiconductor markets worldwide."

About Diodes Incorporated

Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq:DIOD), an S&P SmallCap 600 Index company, is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete and analog semiconductor markets, serving the consumer electronics, computing, communications, industrial and automotive markets. Diodes products include diodes, rectifiers, transistors, MOSFETs, protection devices, functional specific arrays, power management devices including DC-DC switching and linear voltage regulators, amplifiers and comparators, and Hall-effect sensors. The Company has its corporate offices in Dallas, Texas, with a sales, marketing, engineering and logistics office in Southern California; design centers in Dallas, San Jose and Taipei; a wafer fabrication facility in Missouri; two manufacturing facilities in Shanghai; a fabless IC plant in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan; engineering, sales, warehouse and logistics offices in Taipei and Hong Kong, and sales and support offices throughout the world. With its recent asset acquisition of APD Semiconductor, a privately held U.S.-based fabless semiconductor company, Diodes acquired proprietary SBR(R) technology. Diodes, Inc.'s product focus is on high-growth end-user equipment markets such as TV/Satellite set-top boxes, portable DVD players, datacom devices, ADSL modems, power supplies, medical devices, wireless notebooks, flat panel displays, digital cameras, mobile handsets, DC to DC conversion, Wireless 802.11 LAN access points, brushless DC motor fans, and automotive applications. For further information, including SEC filings, visit the Company's website at http://www.diodes.com.

Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Any statements set forth above that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, such factors as the integration of acquisitions within Diodes existing operations, the Company's ability to successfully make additional acquisitions, fluctuations in product demand, the introduction of new products, the Company's ability to maintain customer and vendor relationships, technological advancements, impact of competitive products and pricing, growth in targeted markets, successful integration of acquired companies and/or assets, risks of foreign operations, availability of tax credits, and other information detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Recent news releases, annual reports, and SEC filings are available at the Company's website: http://www.diodes.com. Written requests may be sent directly to the Company, or they may be e-mailed to: diodes-fin@diodes.com.

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