Cree Delivers the First 160-Lumen White Power LED
[PR announcement from CREE-mhw family owns shares in CREE]
Monday October 9, 5:00 pm ET
- XLamp LEDs now as efficient as fluorescent sources -
DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE - News), a leader in LED solid-state lighting components, today announced new benchmarks for power LED brightness and efficacy with the release of the newest white Cree XLamp® 7090 power LED. This new XLamp LED, available in volume quantities, produces luminous flux of up to 95 lumens or 85 lumens per watt at 350 mA [compact fluorescents are about 50-80 lumensperwatt], and up to 160 lumens at 700 mA....Cree LEDs are achieving efficacy levels formerly delivered only by the most efficient traditional lighting sources, including fluorescent bulbs. We have established a new class of LED performance," notes Mike Dunn, Cree general manager and vice president, lighting and backlighting LEDs. "Our goal at Cree remains to aggressively increase the brightness and efficacy of our LEDs to ensure that LEDs become a cost-effective, energy-saving alternative for all lighting applications."
IMO, if you can tolerate the harshness of compact fluorescents (CFLs) you should buy them rather than wait for LEDs because the CFLs are cheap compared to whatever retail LEDs will be produced. The big dollar and big energy savings impacts of this and the next generation of LEDs will be in shopping malls, offices & streetlights (although upscale new homes will be using LEDs soon). Right now most of the company's output goes for backlighting of computer and phone screens, automotive applications and the like.
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