Earlier this week, the world’s largest lighting producer Philips announced its plan to spin-off its Lumileds LED lighting unit and automotive lighting segment into a separate company by early 2015.

DURHAM, N.C. – Two of the world’s leaders in the growing light emitting diode (LED) lighting market are joining forces in a sense with the stated goal of growing the LED market. And Wall Street likes ...

Several years ago, a VC in the power field was talking about with me about areas his company was considering investing in, and I asked what about high-brightness LEDs which were just starting to ...

Cree, look out. Philips brand is coming to get you. Well, to get the lighting industry, at least. The Dutch consumer-appliance giant announced this week that it has developed an LED light that will be ...

DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), and Philips (NYSE:PHG)(AEX: PHI) have signed a comprehensive, worldwide patent cross-license agreement designed to further accelerate the ...

Cree Lighting and Philips Lighting both announced 60W-equivalent LED lamps at less than $15, but the companies took decidedly different design approaches to the SSL retrofits. Cree Lighting has ...

A relatively cheap, efficient downlight for homes coming for Cree and Home Depot. Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is going after more than hall lamps with its latest LED light bulb announcement. The ...

AMSTERDAM, July 7 (Reuters) - Philips Electronics and Cree , leaders in light emitting diode (LED) fixtures, have agreed to cross-license their technologies to help speed up adoption of lower energy ...

Apparently, some of the major innovators working on LED replacement options for incandescent lightbulbs didn't get the memo about the government's shift in support for lightbulb energy-efficiency ...