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SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMERS AND GEOGRAPHIC NET REVENUES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Risks and Uncertainties [Abstract]  
Concentration Risk Disclosure [Text Block]
SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMERS AND GEOGRAPHIC NET REVENUES:
Segment Reporting
The Company is organized and operates as one reportable segment, the design, development, manufacture and marketing of integrated circuits and related components for use primarily in the high-voltage power-conversion market. The Company’s chief operating decision maker, the Chief Executive Officer, reviews financial information presented on a consolidated basis for purposes of making operating decisions and assessing financial performance.
Customer Concentration
The Company's top ten customers accounted for approximately 58% of net revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2018, and approximately 59% of net revenues in the corresponding period of the previous year. A significant portion of these revenues are attributable to sales of the Company’s products to distributors of electronic components. These distributors sell the Company’s products to a broad, diverse range of end users, including OEMs and merchant power supply manufacturers. Sales to distributors were $79.1 million and $80.6 million in the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively. Direct sales to OEMs and power-supply manufacturers accounted for the remainder.
In each of the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017, one customer, a distributor of the Company's products, accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s net revenues.
The following table discloses this customer’s percentage of revenues for the respective periods:
 
Three Months Ended
 
March 31,
Customer
2018
 
2017
Avnet
16
%
 
17
%

No other customers accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s net revenues in the periods presented.
Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash investments and trade receivables. The Company does not have any off-balance-sheet credit exposure related to its customers. As of March 31, 2018, and December 31, 2017, 70% and 67%, respectively, of accounts receivable were concentrated with the Company’s top 10 customers.
The following customers represented 10% or more of accounts receivable:
Customer
March 31,
2018
 
December 31,
2017
Avnet
20
%
 
18
%
ATM Electronics
10
%
 
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Total customer percentage of accounts receivable was less than 10%.
Geographic Net Revenues
The Company markets its products globally through its sales personnel and a worldwide network of independent sales representatives and distributors. Geographic net revenues, based on “bill to” customer locations, for the three months ended March 31, 2018, and March 31, 2017, were as follows:

Three Months  Ended
 
March 31,
(In thousands)
2018

2017
United States of America
$
3,867

 
$
3,829

Hong Kong/China
51,357


54,845

Taiwan
11,886


13,034

Korea
9,649


9,506

Western Europe (excluding Germany)
13,592


11,971

Japan
4,551


4,648

Germany
3,304


2,796

Other
4,875


4,059

Total net revenues
$
103,081

 
$
104,688