PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2012--
Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD), a leading global manufacturer and
supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within
the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, has won a
Best Electronic Design award in Electronic Design magazine’s prestigious
annual awards issue. The Company won the award in the Automotive
category for its Super Barrier Rectifier (SBR®) product line
launched in June, 2011.
Electronic Design staff editors selected the award winners from what
they consider to be the best technology, products and standards
announced during the year, while readers selected the best Ideas for
Design and Hall of Fame inductees from a list proposed by the editorial
staff.
“We rely on the expertise of our staff and contributing editors to
ferret out the best of the many new technologies, products and standards
that we have seen and written about over the past 12 months,” said
Editor-in-Chief Joe Desposito. “These guys are in the trenches every day
covering this industry and they know about all the great new innovations
that have been introduced in the last year.”
Francis Tang, VP, Worldwide Discrete Products, Diodes Incorporated,
said, “Winning a Best Electronic Design award from a magazine with the
great stature of Electronic Design is an honor and a real endorsement of
the SBR product line. For the automotive sector our goal for SBR was
clear – achieve a higher avalanche rating and larger safer operating
area to increase reliability in automotive applications.”
For further information, visit the Company’s website at www.diodes.com.
SBR is a registered trademark of Diodes Incorporated.
About Diodes Incorporated
Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD), a Standard and Poor's 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 Company's
corporate headquarters, logistics center, and Americas' sales office are
located in Plano, Texas. Design, marketing, and engineering centers are
located in Plano; 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 two joint venture facilities located in Chengdu, China. Additional
engineering, sales, warehouse, and logistics offices are located in Fort
Worth, Texas; 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.
Source: Diodes Incorporated
Company Contact:
Diodes Incorporated
Francis Tang
VP,
Worldwide Discrete Products
P: 972-987-3900
E: pressinquiries@diodes.com
or
Investor
Relations Contact:
Shelton Group
Leanne K. Sievers
EVP,
Investor Relations
P: 949-224-3874
E: lsievers@sheltongroup.com