In late March, all of the US Home Depot stores began carrying Cree’s new LED light bulbs. While they’re by no means the first such bulbs to offer the same form factor as standard incandescent bulbs, ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. That's a marked improvement from the original bulbs, which ...

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Cree, Inc. has demonstrated a single high-power LED delivering nearly 1,600 lumens at 134 lumens-per-watt (LPW) with similar color quality as an incandescent light bulb. Cree, Inc. has demonstrated a ...

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DURHAM – Cree LED launched a new product class in the lighting industry last week and it’s colorful. The XLamp Element G LEDs were developed to provide multicolor directional light for indoor and ...

DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cree LED, an SGH company (Nasdaq: SGH), announced today the release of XLamp® Pro9™ LEDs, delivering up to 15% higher efficacy for 90 and 95 color rendering index (CRI) ...

This article was originally published on Feb. 2, 2025. Plants need light to grow, and while natural sunlight is ideal, artificial lighting can also support healthy growth, especially for indoor plants ...

Just last year, Philips released its $5 LED bulb. Considering 60-watt equivalents were going for around $40 in 2010, $5 for a bulb that lasts 20-plus years seems like a good investment. On Tuesday, ...

Cree has announced that its XSP Series LED street lights represent a “breakthrough innovation” in street lighting. They lights are the most affordable and efficient LED-based sources that Cree has yet ...

If the smart home is to catch on, then its constituent pieces have to start playing together nicely. Cree has been pushing the LED bulb envelope – particularly on price – for some time, and now it's ...