Progress in the LED lighting industry can best be measured in two separate metrics: pricing and efficiency. Pricing gets most of the attention, but so many factors affect it -- from the cost of ...

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces it has achieved industry-best reported R&D results of 186 lumens per watt for a white power LED. This result demonstrates Cree’s ...

Two years after breaking the 200 lumens-per-watt (LPW) R&D efficacy barrier, Cree, Inc. delivers another industry first with the introduction of the Cree XLamp MK-R LEDs. The new MK-R LEDs leverage ...

DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, reports another industry-best efficacy record of 231 lumens per watt for a white power LED. This result is a ...

The race for LED manufacturers to improve the industry headline metric of lumens/watt is hotting up in the drive to improve the energy efficiency of lighting systems. But as sales of LED lighting ...

One of the ways -- if not the best way -- to track the progress of LEDs over the past few years has been through the metric of lumens-per-watt. As you can gather from the name this is an efficiency ...

Previously white LEDs had a max of about 60 lumens per watt but the new White LEDs have 135 lumens per watt and match the best lighting alternatives The new LED can replace traditional fluorescent ...

LED maker Cree announced this week that it had achieved a new record in terms of lighting efficiency, harvesting 303 lumens per watt from a white high power LED at room temperature. This represents a ...

LED maker Cree, Inc. says it measured an industry-best efficacy record of 231 lumens/watt for a white power LED. This result is a significant advance beyond Cree's previous industry record. The catch ...

New XP-E2 LEDs provide about a 20% boost in brightness compared to the older XP-E devices they are meant to replace. Developed by Cree Inc., they are rated to provide up to 128 lm/W at 350 mA, 85°C or ...