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Creea?s New Lighting-Class LEDs Shatter Industry Performance Standards

^{Published on 2010-11-10 06:10:42 - Market Wire}
 

DURHAM, N.C.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of the industrya™s brightest, highest performance lighting-class LEDs. With breakthrough light output and efficacy, Cree XLamp^® XM-L LEDs are designed for very high-lumen applications, such as high-bay or roadway lighting.

"The XLamp XM-L LED can fundamentally change the way Cree customers look at LED light"

The XLamp XM-L LED has gone from concept to commercial availability in less than eight months, demonstrating Creea™s proven commitment to developing the highest performance, most cost-effective LEDs optimized for each lighting application.

aThe XLamp XM-L LED can fundamentally change the way Cree customers look at LED light,a said John Edmond, Cree director of advanced optoelectronics. aAn LED with this level of light output and this level of efficacy can accelerate the development of high-output commercial lighting products and could enable applications we havena™t even thought of yet. This sets a new standard for LED performance.a

Cool white (6500 K) XLamp XM-L LEDs deliver 1000 lumens with 100 lumens per watt efficacy at 3A. In a compact 5 mm x 5 mm footprint, XM-L LEDs offer the unique combination of very high efficacy at very high drive currents delivering light output and efficacy of 160 lumens per watt at 350 mA and up to 315 lumens and 150 lumens per watt at 700 mA, providing a 20 percent efficiency gain from Creea™s current industry-leading XLamp XP-G LEDs.

XLamp XM-L LEDs are available in sample and production quantities with standard lead times. To locate a distributor, please visit [ www.cree.com/buyxlamp ].

About Cree

Cree is leading the LED lighting revolution and setting the stage to obsolete the incandescent light bulb through the use of energy-efficient, environmentally friendly LED lighting. Cree is a market-leading innovator of lighting-class LEDs, LED lighting, and semiconductor solutions for wireless and power applications.

Creea™s product families include LED fixtures and bulbs, blue and green LED chips, high-brightness LEDs, lighting-class power LEDs, power-switching devices and radio-frequency/wireless devices. Cree solutions are driving improvements in applications such as general illumination, backlighting, electronic signs and signals, variable-speed motors, and wireless communications.

For additional product and company information, please refer to [ www.cree.com ]. To learn more about the LED Lighting Revolution, please visit [ www.creeledrevolution.com ].

This press release contains forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties, both known and unknown, that may cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated. Actual results may differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk we may encounter delays or other difficulties in ramping up production of our new products; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render Creea™s products obsolete; and other factors discussed in Creea™s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 27, 2010, and subsequent filings.

Cree and XLamp are registered trademarks of Cree, Inc.