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(EMAILWIRE.COM, July 29, 2008 ) Hong Kong - 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, has announced the qualification of a series of its popular Zetex power management ICs to the AEC-Q100 automotive quality specification.
The newly qualified products include monitors, regulators and references, which meet the requirements of AEC-Q100 Grade 1 for operation in automotive environments at temperatures up to 125ºC. As previously announced, Diodes closed the acquisition of United Kingdom-based Zetex plc on 9 June 2008.
The ZXCT1008 and ZXCT1080 current and voltage output current monitors, the
ZTL431 and TLV431 shunt regulators, and the LM4040 precision micropower voltage reference devices support measurement and protection duties in a wide range of reliability-critical subsystems, including window motor control, air conditioning and courtesy lighting.
"Qualifying these very popular devices at such a stringent automotive quality specification provides automobile manufacturers the benefit of more precise power management coupled with significantly increased reliability,"
said Mark King, Diodes' senior vice president of Sales and Marketing. "From a business perspective, this step is a natural progression for our company.
The Zetex range of high efficiency bipolars and MOSFETs has long been qualified to the AEC-Q101 specification for discrete parts. Our AEC-Q100 compliant monitors, regulators and references are a perfect complement, which substantially increases the value proposition we offer to the automotive sector."
Published by the Automotive Electronic Committee (AEC), the AEC-Q100 quality specification details the environmental and endurance tests and conditions that electronic components need to satisfy before automotive qualification can be declared.
About Diodes Incorporated
Diodes Incorporated, a S&P SmallCap 600 Index company, is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of 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.
Diodes has its corporate offices in Dallas, Texas, with a sales, marketing, engineering and logistics office in Southern California; design centers in Dallas, San Jose, Hsinchu Science Park and Taipei; a wafer fabrication facility in Missouri; two manufacturing facilities in Shanghai; engineering, sales, warehouse and logistics offices in Taipei and Hong Kong, and sales and support offices throughout the world. Diodes' 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 www.diodes.com.
Issued on behalf of Diodes Incorporated
by EBA Communications
For further information please contact:
Stanley Leung (Diodes): (852) 2610 7932
(email: sleung@zetex.com)
Andy Wong (EBA): (852) 2537 8022
(email: andy.wong@ebacomms.com)
Diodes Incorporated
Stanley Leung
(852) 2610 7932
sleung@zetex.co
Source: EmailWire.com
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