Silicon technology from Dow Corning is helping usher in a new generation of light emitting diodes (LEDs) that since their introduction in the 1960s have held the energy-saving promise of replacing incandescent, halogen and fluorescent light bulbs.

Lumex is proud to introduce the all-new AstraLED™ RGB (SML-LX1610RGBW/A).  This leading-edge technology provides ultra-bright, full-color output in a 3-Watt high power package.  Lumex's AstraLED RGB can deliver light intensity of 8/25/20 lumens at 300mA (red), 350mA (green), 350mA (blue) of current.

COLOR STARS: New BOBBY-MR16-WHT LED Lamps
MR16 LED Lamp | November 14, 2008
Color Stars' new chips in the BOBBY-MR16-WHT 40 and 60-degree lamps increase the lumen output to 220~260 lumens for warm white and 240~280 lumens for daylight white. This is a 45% increase in lumen output for warm white and a 60% increase in lumen output for daylight white.

ON Semiconductor: RGB LED Pixel Drivers for High-Brightness, High-Visual Impact Architectural Lighting 
Mid Power RGB Driver | November 14, 2008
ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN) has expanded its line of constant-current, LDD™ (low dropout driver) products recently acquired from Catalyst Semiconductor, to include two new high-brightness RGB LED pixel drivers. The CAT4103 and CAT4109 are three-channel, linear-based constant-current LED drivers for RGB LED pixel control in emerging high-brightness, high-visual impact LED architectural lighting.

LUXIM Launches LIFI® STA-40 Series Solid State Plasma Light Sources For General Lighting
SSL-Plasma Light Source  | November 14, 2008
LUXIM Corp. launched the LIFI® STA-40 Series, the awardwinning solid state plasma light sources for street, area, architectural and industrial lighting applications. The product line was on display at the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Annual Conference in Savannah, GA.

At the Electronica - Munich,  Avago Technologies announced the addition of new 3-Watt high power Cool-White (ASMT-Mx20) and Warm-White (ASMT-Mx22) low-profile LEDs to its Moonstone family.

Code Mercenaries launches a new product line for LED lighting applications. This is a new strategic branch of operations for Code Mercenaries.

Elation Professionals new ELED Strip RGBW is designed to shoot an intense wash of color across walls and other large surfaces with a powerful array of sixty 1W LEDs (15 LEDs each in red, green, blue, and white).

Intematix Corp., a leading innovator in phosphors, LED components and solid state lighting modules has added an amber-color LED family to its growing line of packaged device solutions. Its new amber-color product line leverages Intematix' patented phosphor technologies in combination with InGaN blue LED chips to create the breakthrough product family. Blue-excited amber LEDs offer substantial increases in efficiency and temperature stability compared to traditional AlInGaP-based amber LED technologies. Follow-on blue-excited color LED families are also under development.

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the release of its new-generation high-brightness 4-mm and 5-mm oval LEDS in blue, green and red. These new oval LEDs feature optically-matched radiation patterns in blue, green and red, resulting in superior image quality for digital billboard and full-color sign applications. In Cree’s unique matched-radiation pattern, the red pattern is inside the blue and green—resulting in a blended cool-white light, compared to the pink that results when unmatched LEDs are used.

Lighting Science (LSG), a global developer and integrator of intelligent and efficient light-emitting diode (LED) solutions, and the ACO Group, the worldwide leader in water drain systems and intelligent water drainage, today announced the global availability of the ACO Eyeleds solution for illuminating outdoor spaces. The new drainage solution will incorporate attractive and sustainable LED lighting technology as a permanent part of track drainage grates, which provide natural locations for pathway illumination.

Jaz from Ocean Optics is a modular, handheld optical-sensing instrument now available for radiometric analysis of LEDs, flat panel displays, lamps and other radiant sources. With its small footprint and convenient onboard display, Jaz is ideal for relative intensity measurements of incandescent, high-intensity discharge, UV curing and fluorescent lamps, as well as low-power sources such as LEDs and OLEDs.

Philips Lumileds and Future Lighting Solutions have introduced the first comprehensive suite of online Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools designed to speed the prototyping and development of solid-state lighting solutions for general lighting applications such as task lamps, recessed downlights, outdoor lighting and shop lighting.

Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) introduces the MAX16826 programmable, four-string high-brightness (HB) LED driver for white, RGB, and RGB-plus-amber LED configurations. Designed to enable the transition to green lighting technology in automotive applications, this device maximizes system flexibility and provides the lowest solution cost for backlight drivers.

The LED Engineering Kit, which OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is now offering for sale on the LED Light for You (LLFY) platform, provides a means of gaining practical knowledge of LED lighting. This kit is a powerful tool for anyone who wants to test LEDs.

What if outdoor lighting were more intelligent? What if we created pervasive lighting solutions that adapted to the day’s rhythm or were triggered by activity? What if lighting provided accurate light effects where we need it, when we need it and supported the lifestyle of citizens, improving their quality of life and well-being?

DDP, a leader in engineered LED solutions, has developed customizable, low-profile linear LED lighting designed specifically for small cove and indirect lighting applications in the commercial and high-end residential building markets.

The world’s brightest LED Enfis Quattro, which generates 12,000 lumens from a single LED Array, has been launched by Enfis, global leader in light engines and arrays.  Introduced at PLASA 2008 it comprises an LED Array, optics, thermal management and electronics, to accelerate time to market.

"Excellent, robust  LED lighting solution for 'heavy' projects outdoors" goes. Eyeleds International is happy to announce the official market release of the latest Product Innovation 'Eyeleds Outdoor Extreme'.

LEDtronics® announces its latest generation of PAR16-style LED spotlight bulbs. Made up of three 1-watt, high-power LEDs, the PAR16 LED bulb is a direct drop-in replacement in standard E26 Edison-base PAR16 fixtures.

The new High-Power 24 V RGB/CA system enables modular and highly flexible LED systems. The new system responds to the trend towards market harmonisation and simplification of LED control technology.

Integrated System Technologies, a leading LED driver manufacturer, has developed the iDrive™-UL, a DMX-based three-channel 350mA LED driver, to complement its existing portfolio of world class patented LED drivers, in order to satisfy the demands of its rapidly growing international client base.

Endicott Research Group, the specialist in power conversion solutions since 1979, offers DC-DC converters in a range of output power levels from 0.25 W to 25 W for customers who want an inexpensive converter to perform simple voltage conversions at low power.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced the availability of a new high-power, high-brightness white LED for commercial, residential and industrial lighting applications. The TL12W02-D device can provide a typical flux of 90 lumens from a driving current of only 250mA.

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of the XLamp(R) MC-E LED, the highest-lumen LED in the award-winning XLamp family.

Power Vector's new developed 240 watts LED Driver with improved dimming opportunities is currently available for prototype evaluation in limited quantities. UL and CE approved production units are targeted for January 2009. 

Fast and reliable display measurements are a challenge in the field of production. The new Gigabit Ethernet interface enables the LumiCam 1300 from Instrument Systems to meet this challenge effortlessly.

Carclo Technical Plastics announces the immediate availability of high performance 26.5mm polycarbonate optics to manage the light output from a wide range of multi-chip LEDs.

LedEngin, Inc. today announced the addition of Deep Red products to its high power product portfolio. Product availability includes 5 and 10 watt emitters. Typical 10 watt package performance of up to 2 watts of radiant power and sets new records for Deep Red products.

Albeo Technologies released its Constellation series LED High Bay luminaire for industrial, commercial, warehouse and retail spaces. Albeo is the first LED light fixture manufacturer to make an LED fixture that combines the reliability of LED lighting with the fixture performance requirements for high-bay applications

Linear Technology announces the LT3756, a 100V, high-side current sense DC/DC converter designed to drive high current LEDs. Its 6V to 100V input voltage range makes it ideal for a wide variety of applications, including automotive, industrial and architectural lighting.

Evident Technologies Inc. announced the commercial availability of its evidot LED products based on semiconductor nanocrystal technology. Whereas traditional LEDs are available in a limited set of standard colors (blue, green, red, etc.), Evident’s new products enables LEDs to emit any color, including high-quality white light.

The new conceptional design of our spectral measurement systems aimed at the development of a portable system for absolute spectral emission measurement from UV to NIR.

Monocrystal, a leader in the synthetic sapphire and other advanced electronic materials markets, announced today that the company launched production of its ultra-large 8” C-plane epi-ready sapphire wafers for LED manufacturing in August.

The new DigiLED Push is a cost-effective and easy to use one button colour control module. It is the module of choise for simplified applications.

The Alien LED Downlight™ is a plug-and-play recessed LED downlight that features RGB+W color mixing and is available in a standard or high power version.

The light line in the street in front of the entrance to the Gelredome stadium (Arnhem, The Netherlands) is one of the projects which have been realized with the LED Light Strip RGB of Tri-O-Light and the polyurethane casting resin technique of Multicol casting adhesives trading: a new expertise within Tri-O-Light.

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today released the industry’s first series of high-intensity amber and yellow power SMD LEDs in the CLCC-2 flat ceramic package with driving currents up to 400 mA, and the industry's first series of high-intensity white power SMD LEDs in the CLCC-2 flat ceramic package.

DOMINANT's newest LED product series, Primax, is designed to provide high intensity light output in a very small package. It completes our high-power product portfolio by covering the range between our Power DomiLED and the high power SPNovaLED.

Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. a supplier of analog, mixed-signal and non-volatile memory semiconductors, has expanded its line of constant-current, LDD™ (low dropout driver) products to include a new, simple-to-use, high-power device for architectural, landscape, automotive and general LED lighting products.

Instrument Systems – leading manufacturer of systems for spectoradiometric light measurement – presents the DTS140 NVIS as the latest generation of the company’s fast, CCD-based spectroradiometers with a proven track record worldwide.

Saving energy has become a global issue and reducing the power consumption of lighting is a common goal. Exchanging incandescent Light against CFL (compact fluorescent lighting) is only a bridge to the future lighting technology known as LED (Light Emitting Diodes) lighting or Solid State Lighting (SSL).

Maxim Integrated Products (PINK OTC MARKETS: MXIM) introduces the MAX16822A/B and MAX16832A/C family of 2MHz, high-brightness (HB) LED drivers with an integrated MOSFET and high-side current-sense circuitry.

Carclo Technical Plastics announces the immediate availability of a wide range of high performance polycarbonate optics to manage the light output from new Cree XLamp® XP-E and XP-C LEDs.

LEDtronics^® introduces an addition to its line of drop-in replacement MR16-styled /GU10-based LED bulbs: High-powered 3.3-Watt LED lamps. Two major advantages distinguish this new bulb over other GMR16 LED lamps.

Color Stars has launched the TB60 SERIES of T-Bar 60x60cm LED ceiling light panels. High brightness TB60 SERIES LED ceiling light panels are ideal for hotel, conference room, office, factory or other commercial lighting locations.

Lighting Science Group, a global developer and integrator of intelligent and efficient light-emitting diode (LED) solutions, today announced the global availability of its LED-based retail display product line.

World leading LED driver manufacturer, IST Ltd, has expanded its range of innovative and cost competitive LED drivers with the world’s first variable forward current high power LED driver and its first single channel LED driver.

Sharp Corporation has developed a series of new LED Lightings, including the "oblong" type that features a brightness equivalent to the fluorescent lamp fixtures*1 that are currently the main lighting in factories, offices and commercial spaces, and the "downlight" type with a brightness equivalent to a standard 150-watt incandescent light lamp. Sharp will introduce a total of 11 models into the Japanese market, including four oblong, one square, and six downlight models.

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces a new standard for lighting-class LEDs with the introduction of the XLamp® XP-E and XP-C LEDs. These breakthrough LEDs have the smallest footprint in the industry for lighting-class LEDs—providing the same high-quality lighting performance and proven reliability as Cree XR-E and XR-C LEDs in an 80-percent smaller package.