DALLAS--(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 that it has been named among "America's 200 Best Small Companies" by Forbes, Inc. and was ranked 38th in sales growth and 32nd in earnings per share growth.

"We are pleased to once again be named one of the '200 Best Small Companies in America' by Forbes, representing the fifth consecutive year that Diodes has been included on the list," commented Dr. Keh-Shew Lu, President and CEO of Diodes Incorporated. "At Diodes, our primary focus is on delivering consistent and profitable growth to our shareholders, and awards and recognition such as this serve as further validation of the success of our long-term strategies."

To qualify, companies must have sales between $5 million and $750 million and a stock price of at least $5 as of September 29, 2008. The ranking is based on return on equity, sales growth, and one-year and five-year profit growth.

About Diodes Incorporated

Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD), an S&P 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 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, amplifiers and comparators, Hall-effect sensors and temperature sensors, power management devices including LED drivers, DC-DC switching regulators, linear voltage regulators and voltage references along with special function devices including USB power switch, load switch, voltage supervisor and motor controllers. The Company's corporate headquarters are located in Dallas, Texas. A sales, marketing, engineering and logistics office is located in Westlake Village, California. Design centers are located in Dallas; San Jose, California; Taipei, Taiwan; Manchester, England and Neuhaus, Germany. The Company's 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 Company's website at http://www.diodes.com.

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