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(DIODES LOGO)
Diodes Incorporated to Hold Annual Meeting of Stockholders on
May 26, 2011
Dallas, Texas — April 15, 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 announced that it will hold its Annual Meeting of Stockholders on Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. (Central Time). The Annual Meeting will be conducted at the Westin Stonebriar Resort, located at 1549 Legacy Drive, Frisco, Texas 75034. Diodes’ President and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Keh-Shew Lu, and Chief Financial Officer, Richard D. White, will chair the meeting and provide a brief presentation.
In accordance with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s Notice and Access rule, on April 15, 2011, Diodes mailed the “Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials” to its stockholders based on a record date of March 31, 2011 and furnished proxy materials via the Internet. Diodes will provide a printed set of proxy materials by mail to any stockholder upon request. Stockholders may obtain printed copies of Diodes’ proxy materials free of charge by following the instructions provided on its website at http://investor.diodes.com under “Proxy Materials & Annual Reports” or in the “Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials.”
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 Dallas, Texas. Design, marketing, and engineering 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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