Diodes, Inc. is a leading global designer, manufacturer and supplier of high-quality, application specific standard products. We design, manufacture and market these semiconductors for diverse end-use applications. Semiconductors, which provide electronic signal amplification and switching functions, are basic building-block electronic components that are incorporated into almost every electronic device. We believe that our focus on standard semiconductor products provides us with a meaningful competitive advantage relative to other semiconductor companies that provide a wider range of semiconductor products.
Our product portfolio addresses the design needs of many advanced electronic devices, including high-volume consumer devices such as digital audio players, notebook computers, flat-panel displays, mobile handsets, digital cameras and set-top boxes. We believe that we have particular strength in designing innovative surface-mount semiconductors for applications with a critical need to minimize product size while maximizing power efficiency and overall performance, and at a lower cost than alternative solutions. Our product line includes over 4,000 products. We serve over 200 direct customers worldwide, which consist of original equipment manufacturers ("OEM") and electronic manufacturing services ("EMS") providers. Additionally, we have approximately 70 distributor customers worldwide, through which we indirectly serve over 10,000 customers.
We were incorporated in 1959 in California and reincorporated in Delaware in 1968. We are headquartered in Dallas, Texas. We have two manufacturing facilities located in Shanghai, China, one in Neuhaus, Germany and a joint venture facility in Chengdu, China, and our wafer fabrication facilities are in Kansas City, Missouri and Oldham, England. Our sales, marketing, engineering and logistical centers are located in Westlake Village, California; Taipei, Taiwan; Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Oldham. We have strengthened our product design centers in the United States ("U.S."), China, England, Germany and Taiwan to position our design engineers to work more closely with our customers and enable us to deliver a stream of innovative solutions in our targeted product categories. We also have regional sales offices and/or representatives in France, Germany, and in various cities in the U.S.
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