The US Air Force has awarded Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which makes silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) wafers and devices as well as LEDs, a $4.1m follow-on contract, enabling qualification of a high-performance power ...
Tags: GaN wafers, SiC
Twenty three LED manufacturers have released their financial results as of Aug. 25, 2015. A lot of analysis has been done to understand net profit and sales revenue. LEDinside focus on the most discussed “price war” and have ...
Tags: LED chips, LED luminaires, LED package
Henkel Adhesive Technologies, a solution provider for adhesives, sealants and functional coatings, has unveiled its “Lighting in 2025” report, with up-to-the-minute research on current and future trends in the lighting industry. ...
Tags: adhesives, sealants, functional coatings
In December 2014, the Chinese government announced it would no longer be encouraging local governments to issue financial subsidies to LED manufacturers. The announcement which could have brought a sigh of relief to foreign competitors, had ...
Tags: LED Subsidies, LED industry
Cree and Epistar have signed a worldwide patent cross-license agreement for LED chips to further advance the growth of the LED lighting and LED bulb markets. Cree and Epistar both hold broad and substantial LED chip patent portfolios that ...
Tags: LED chip, LED lighting
For full-year fiscal 2015 (ended 28 June), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $1.63bn, down just 1% on fiscal 2014's record $1.65bn. Specifically, revenue for Lighting Products (mainly LED lighting systems and bulbs) grew ...
Tags: LED Product, LED chips
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA and Taiwan's Epistar Corp (the world's largest manufacturer of LED epiwafers and chips) have signed a worldwide patent cross-license agreement for LED chips to further advance the growth of the LED lighting and ...
Tags: LED chips, LED lighting
Chinese LED enterprises are spending a fortune in acquiring foreign manufacturers in 2015. A couple of examples include Shenzhen Kaifa Technology (Kaifa) recent acquisition of U.S. LED manufacturer Bridgelux, Shanghai Felio Acoustics ...
Tags: LED industry, LED Chip
According to the report 'GaN and SiC for power electronics applications' from Yole Développement, in 2014 the silicon carbide (SiC) chip business was worth more than $133m, with power factor correction (PFC) and photovoltaics (PV) ...
Tags: SiC Market, power electronics
The light-emitting diode (LED) grow-light market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.93% from 2015 to more than $1.9bn by 2020, according to the report 'LED Grow Light Market by Wattage, Type of Installation (New, ...
Tags: LED lighting, circuit fitting lED, electronics, market Lighting market
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched the XLamp XHP35 family of LEDs, which yields 50% more light output than Cree's previous highest-performing single-die LED, setting a new performance standard for the 3.5mm footprint. Built on ...
Tags: Cree, single-die LED, LED Light
According to its 2015 Chinese LED Industry Market Report, LEDinside, a division of TrendForce, finds the scale of the Chinese LED package market for 2014 reached US$8.6 billion and grew by 19% annually. The general lighting market has been ...
Tags: LED Package, LED Chip
LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced the TW Series LED Candelabra bulb, available as 25- and 40-watt replacements (in three-bulb multi-packs at The Home Depot stores for $19.97). Cree says that its ...
Tags: Cree, LED light, bulbs, LED Candelabra
Feit Electric Company Inc of Pico Rivera, CA, USA has filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina alleging that the 4Flow line of LED light bulbs of LED maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA ...
Tags: Cree, LED light, bulbs, Feit Electric
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA says that its board of directors has approved the following: a restructuring of the LED Products business; a $500m stock buyback authorization for fiscal 2016; and the ...
Tags: Cree LED, LED chip, ASP Erosion