Flurry of LED-Related News from Cree
Source/Type: News - Staff reports

January 31, 2007... While its other compound semi-related enterprises continue to flourish, there's an obvious ramp in LED-related news these days as Cree, Inc. of Durham, North Carolina USA tries to regain it's dominant role as one of the original "Big Five" blue spectrum LED chip makers. The company has issued a flurry of press releases related to new LED products, new customers and upcoming speaker engagements. Three such otherwise unrelated news items are highlighted in this composite coverage. First, Cree has announced that Vortex Vision Corporation, a pioneer of the rechargeable-battery flashlight market, has chosen Cree's new XLamp XR-E power LEDs for five of Vortex's LED flashlight models. According to Vortex's managing director, "We chose the Cree XLamp XR-E LED because it allows us to make very bright flashlights featuring long run times. The combination of the XLamp XR-E LED and the advanced Vortex technology ensures that our customers will have the most powerful Vortex Premium Aluminum Flashlights and TacLites available." Cree news release. The second and third news items, which can be viewed in their entirety over our sister publication, LIGHTimes, include the signing of an Asian distributor agreement with WPI Group and the announcement that Cree VP Chris James will be a featured speaker at APEC in late February.

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