Emily Yang
Analyst · Baird. Your line is now open
Thank you, Brett, and good afternoon. Second quarter revenue increased 3.9% sequentially and above the mid-point of our guidance, which, as Dr. Lu mentioned, was a notable accomplishment considering the COVID-related lockdown in Taiwan and China that resulted in shifting our manufacturing facilities closed-loop operation, primarily in Shanghai in major surrounding locations. Looking more closely at second quarter revenue, we have record revenue across all regions. Worldwide POS revenue was down slightly, mainly due to the weakness in the euro. Asia POS was supported by very strong demand and increased sequentially even despite the COVID-related lockdown in Asia. Distributor inventory in terms of weeks increased slightly quarter-over-quarter, which is still within our defined normal range of 11 to 14 weeks. Overall demand and backlog remained very strong. Looking at the global sales in the second quarter. Asia represented 74% of revenue; Europe 14%; and North America 12%. In terms of our end market, industrial represented 27% of Diodes product revenue, computing 24%, consumer 19%, communication 16%, and automotive 14% of the product revenue. We achieved record revenue in automotive, industrial, consumer and communication markets. Our Pericom product also set a new revenue record, which is the seventh consecutive quarter. I would also like to point out that our automotive, industrial end market combined totaled 41% of the revenue, which exceeds our 2025 target of 40% of the total revenue. Our record revenue in multiple end markets demonstrated Diodes strength in our execution. Despite the reported slowdown in low MPC and smartphone segments, we have been able to quickly adjust our support to the high-demand market segments like automotive and industrial as well as other area within the communication market that are seeing growth like 5G, optical and networking. This has been a key advantage for Diodes that has contributed to our consistent quarterly growth. Now, let me review the end market in greater details. Starting with automotive market. Revenue reached a record for the eighth consecutive quarter and totaled 14% of the revenue for the first time. Revenue grew 36% year-over-year, driven by our ongoing demand creation efforts as well as market share gains. Additionally, our expanding dollar content per vehicle continue to fuel our automotive growth. In connected driving, which consists of ADAS, telematics and infotainment systems, we continue to expand our compact opportunities with new design wins for analog switches, CMOS, LDOs and DC/DC converters in ADAS as well as 3.3-volt USB re-drivers in infotainment, telematics and smart cockpits. Our PCIe clock buffer, oscillator and crystals also providing total timing solutions for infotainment applications. We also win a number of designs for SBR, Schottky diodes, rectifier, USB switches and TVS products in the connected driving, LCD displays, door control units and IO expanders in telematics applications. For the comfort, style and safety, we continue to see solid demand for our CMOS, LDOs and switching diodes for the highlights and body control modules. Volume for our LED drivers continue to ramp for indicator light, while back LED drivers, DC/DC buck converters and diodes were designed into several interior exterior lighting applications. In powertrain, which covers conventional hybrid electric vehicles, a power TVS product when multiple designing applications such as search protectors for display panel power lines, water pumps, DC/DC fans, motor fans and voltage regulators and battery management system. We also continue to expand our protection product portfolio with 17 new auto grade products that went multiple designs at several key OEM accounts. We are also seeing traction for our high-side IntelliFET products in power protection and mechanical relay replacement. In our industrial market, revenue was also a record and increased 43% year-over-year representing growth for the fifth consecutive quarter. Our PCI Express 3.0 packet switch continue to gain traction by enabling mass video data transfer and rich PCIe 3 connection flexibility. Our newly released packet switch can switch multiple serial protocols like PCI Express 5.0 and SAS4 signals and are winning new designs in test and measurement equipment. Additionally, our high-voltage step-down converters are being designed into applications like IoT and smart lighting, while our current suppressors are gaining momentums in the LED lighting. Our wide wing LDO product family also continued to see solid demands for power tools and smoke detection systems. We also saw continued growth for our TVS and switching diodes product family for use in HVAC systems as well as strong demand for power Zener Diodes in uninterrupted power supplies for industrial power system applications, and our MOSFET also continued to gain market share in the inverter applications. In the computing market, our USB signal switches and data line protection products are seeing strong traction in storage, enterprise SSDs and enterprise server applications. SBR and Schottky product has seen strong demand in Power over Ethernet, surfer and high-performance computing applications. We are also seeing increasing adoption of USB-C linear re-drivers in high-end tablets and also winning designs for our 20-gig USB-C re-drivers and display marked switches in gaming, laptop and desktop applications. Diodes power switches achieved multiple design wins in USB power sourced applications in notebook, AIO and desktop. Also, our LED drivers were designed into notable applications for face recognition and our LSC Zener Diodes also posted solid growth in computing power supplies and DC fan application for desktop and notebook PC. Also during the quarter, we introduced several new products, including timing generators, buffers and muxes, switches that support the PCIe 5.0 protocol and re-drivers that supports PCIe 5.0 as well as SAS4 and CXL protocols. In the communication market, we achieved a quarterly revenue record, which especially noteworthy considering the general slowdown in the smartphones. During the quarter, we were able to gain strong traction across a number of high-growth applications, including 5G, optical and networking. In particular, we are winning increasing designs for SBR products in 5G modules, Schottky and diodes in 5G base station and PCI Express 3.0 packet switches in 5G CPE. 4G and 5G mobile phone applications are also driving design activities and demand for the 12-volt CSP battery fans with the release of our new ultra-low jitter crystal oscillators, Diodes has expanded our portfolio as well as push the jitter into the sub-100 femtosecond. Diodes crystal oscillators are designed into optical modules and other networking applications with high-speed interface such as 200 gig, 400 gig and 800 gig Ethernet. We are also seeing design-ins for USBC re-drivers, CMOS LDOs and TVS product in smartphone applications. Lastly, in the consumer market, we also achieved a quarterly record revenue despite the lockdown in Taiwan and China. Our LED drivers are gaining design wins in the smart home applications like floodlight, security cameras and WiFis. DC/DC converters continue to see solid demands from the consumer and home application market, while our CMOS LDO and small sized MOSFET has a number of wins in wearable devices. Also during the quarter, we secured design wins for power switches, TVS, Zener Diodes and audio amplifiers for TVs, gaming consoles, headlights, Bluetooth trackers, large displays, smoke alarms and security system applications, including cameras, motion sensors and vibration sensors. Additionally, Diodes AC/DC USB-C power delivery product portfolio and application ecosystem supported a newest EU regulation, which is mandating a common charging port for smartphones and tablets by the fall of 2024 and laptops by 2026. Our complete USB power delivery solutions provides the source and sink fast-charging capability for a diverse set of devices. We also saw strong design in activities and revenue growth for MOSFETs for wireless charging. In summary, with our sixth consecutive quarter of record results, Diodes continues to prove our ability to consistently execute. We are successfully expanded margins, 490 basis points over the past year through the product mix improvement with an increasing contribution from our key focus areas in the automotive, industrial end market. Additionally, our global manufacturing footprint, including recent addition of onsemi wafer fab provides the expanded capacity that we need to contribute to drive our future growth and expansion towards our 2025 target of $2.5 billion in revenue and $1 billion in gross profit. With that, we will now open the floor to questions. Operator?