Cree go green with new LED alternative to 60-Watt incandescent lightbulb
Cree today unveiled their latest product, the XLamp XM LED which delivers light output of 750 lumens at 2-Amps. Equivalent to a 60-watt incandescent, the bulb will use less than 7 watts. The new platform has a larger footprint than Cree’s XP family and is claimed to offer very high efficacy at very high drive currents. The thermal resistance of the XM platform is 2 degrees C per watt and is a massive improvement on the Cree XLamp XP-E LED.
Chuck Swoboda, Cree chairman and CEO remarked “We continue to set the pace for LED performance, establishing new benchmarks that make you wonder why anyone would consider last-century’s energy-wasting technology.”
“This new platform continues Cree’s well-established record of turning R&D innovations into products,” he added. The bulbs are expected to be commercially available from Fall 2010.
Along with GE who announced their 40-Watt LED equivalent last week, Cree are joining the LED lighting revolution to make the relatively energy-inefficient and environmentally unfriendly incandescent bulb obsolete.
Cree’s products 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.
