Mark King
Analyst · Longbow Research. Your line is open
Thank you, Rick and good afternoon. The second quarter set a record for both revenue and gross profit dollars with revenue increasing 6.2% sequentially led by strong automotive and industrial growth in North American and Europe. OEM sales were up 6.9% and distributor POP was up 6%. Distributor inventory increased 9% in preparation for a stronger third quarter, while POS grew 8% with Europe setting another record quarter for POS. Customer activity continued to be strong across all regions with solid design activity and wins. We are well positioned with customers across our product portfolio to further expand our content and drive growth for the balance of this year. Also the integration of Pericom continues to remain on schedule and we expect the completion of the sales integration by the end of Q3. We continue to penetrate our key customer with a broader product line and see significant customer synergy in cross selling opportunities with the Pericom products. We also continue to make progress with our automotive and industrial expansion initiatives with increasing revenue growth, new product introductions and design wins. From a product perspective, the second quarter was a record quarter for our MOSFET and CMOS LDO. We also continue to see strong momentum for our protection products and LED drives along with a bounce back in revenue for our Hall sensors and AC to DC product lines driven primarily by smatphone sales in China. Turning to global sales, Asia represented 78% of revenue; Europe 12% and North America 10%. In terms of our end-markets, consumer represented 29% of revenue; communications 24%; industrial 22%; computing 19% and automotive was 6%. We continue to make progress on our automotive and industrial initiatives with both end markets increasing sequentially. Let me now provide more detail within each of our end markets. For the consumer market, we released two new audio devices, the first of which is highly integrated 3 watt Class D power amplifier that provides excellent audio performance and system flexibility for portable speakers. And the second is stereo line driver designed with top three architecture for high audio performance at low systems cost. We also saw the adoption of our adjustable current limit power switches by several key TV and set-top customers. For mobile communications applications including portable device charging Diodes once again introduced a wide range of products during the quarter. From our MOSFET platforms, we launched a family of CSP and DNF packaged parts targeting reverse battery protection, quick charge and load switch application along with two high voltage parts targeted at charger applications. Building on Diodes close relationships with several mobile communication customers, we released high surge and general purpose protection devices to meet the needs of these customers including one product offering the highest surge in clamping capability of its kind. Also during the quarter, our Hall Sensor devices gained further market share specifically in China’s smartphone market with several key wins across multiple platforms in major cell phone manufacturers. Other new smartphone wins include a USB signal switch and a high performance single ReDriver with integrated equalization circuitry. In the computing market, we extended our support of USB application with the release of a new high performance liner ReDriver designed specifically for the USB 3.1 protocol. We are well positioned to support emerging USB 3.1 ReDriver requirement and have several critical early design wins on market leading platforms. We also released a bidirectional crossbar solution for switching USB 3.1 signals through a Type C connector. Another recent release related the emerging type C connector market was a flexible, cost effective device that detects plug-in orientation of the cable. Also in the computing space, we’re seeing growing demand for SSDMox [ph] product line to support high density, solid state memory applications for data centers. The need to support these applications will continue to expand with the growth of cloud computing and big data initiatives. For the industrial applications, Diodes released several new products underpinning our commitment to meeting the needs of the segment. During the second quarter, we released a 200 volt OR’ing controller and N plus one redundant power supply systems to support data center requirements for a 100% system up time. Also new for the second quarter is a range of Gate Drivers and single channel half-bridge and high-side, low-side configuration as well as a family of 40 volt, 10 milliamp to 20 milliamp linear LED drivers. Additionally, we released 40 to 100 volt MOSFET products utilizing shift shielded gate technology that were well suited for industrial power supply applications. Also in the industrial space, we expanded our offering of LED drives for non-dimmable retrofit bulb applications with a family of high power, high efficiency drivers that needs the latest and use our requirement. Additionally, our Triac Dimmable product series continues to be very successful in LED applications with several major incremental design wins during the quarter. We are also seeing increased opportunities for our products in industrial camera modules for applications such as security cameras as well as e-meters and e-bike applications in China. And finally, in the automotive market, Diodes once again extended our range of auto qualified MOSFET with the addition of 6, 60-volt and 80-volt products featuring 175 degrees C-rated shielded gate technology. Diodes now has strong design wins and sales momentum with this rugged technology with targeted automotive customers. Diodes also generated strong demand for its new NPN constant-current linear LED drivers for interior, ambient and courtesy lighting. Also within the automotive market, we are seeing an emerging trend in Telematics, where telecommunications capabilities are being invented in the automotive electronics system. Our PCI e-Gen two packet switch is on a key Telematics reference design and has also been designed into a smart antenna project. Additionally, our new PCO driver has been adopted in several electronic tag and key fab applications due to the efficiency and performance of this device. In summary, our initiatives to expand our presence in the automotive and industrial markets continue to show evidence of success. In conjunction with these efforts we also remain focused on further expanding our presence in the portable and wearable space which our markets ideally suited for Diode’s deep expertise in administration and power efficient packaging. Our third quarter expectations for continued growth is representative of a solid position with customer and growing content across our portfolio. With that, I’ll open the floor to questions. Operator?