Exhibit 99.1
Diodes Incorporated Maintains Its First Quarter 2011 Guidance
Dallas, Texas March 10, 2011 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, today reaffirmed its guidance for the first
quarter of 2011.
The Company is maintaining its guidance for the first quarter of 2011 and therefore, continues to
expect revenue to be flat to down five percentage points sequentially and gross margin to be
approximately 36.5 percent, plus or minus one percentage point. In addition, the Company continues
to expect operating expenses to be comparable to the fourth quarter of 2010 on a percent of revenue
basis, income tax rate is expected to range between 17 and 23 percent, and shares used to calculate
GAAP EPS are anticipated to be approximately 46.3 million.
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 visit the Companys 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. Such statements include statements regarding our expectation that:
Diodes Incorporated maintains its first quarter 2011 guidance; the Company today reaffirmed its
guidance for the first quarter of 2011; the Company is maintaining its guidance for the first
quarter of 2011 and therefore, continues to expect revenue to be flat to down five percentage
points sequentially and gross margin to be approximately 36.5 percent, plus or minus one percentage
point; and the Company continues to expect operating expenses to be comparable to the fourth
quarter of 2010 on a percent of revenue basis, income tax rate is expected to range between 17 and
23 percent, and shares used to calculate GAAP EPS are anticipated to be approximately 46.3 million.
Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, such factors as: we may not be
able to maintain our current growth strategy or continue to maintain our current performance, costs
and loadings in our manufacturing facilities; risks of domestic and foreign operations, including
excessive operation costs, labor shortages and our joint venture prospects; unfavorable currency
exchange rates; our future guidance may be incorrect; the global economic weakness may be more
severe or last longer than we currently anticipated; and other information detailed from time to
time in the Companys filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Recent news releases, annual reports, and SEC filings are available at the Companys 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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Company Contact:
Diodes Incorporated
Laura Mehrl
Director of Investor Relations
P: 972-385-4492
E: laura_mehrl@diodes.com
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Investor Relations Contact:
Shelton Group
Leanne K. Sievers
EVP, Investor Relations
P: 949-224-3874
E: lsievers@sheltongroup.com |