Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces another industry-best reported efficacy record of 208 lumens per watt for a white power LED. This R&D result passes a significant milestone within the solid-state lighting industry as well as demonstrates Cree's relentless drive to increase the performance of its LEDs.

Cree's tests confirmed that the LED produced 208 lumens of light output and achieved 208 lumens per watt efficacy at a correlated color temperature of 4579 K. The tests were conducted under standard LED test conditions at a drive current of 350 mA at room temperature.

We have now broken the elusive 200-lumen-per-watt efficacy barrier for a single white power LED, said John Edmond, Cree co-founder and director of advanced optoelectronics. This is a result of improvements in blue optical output power, lower operating voltage and higher conversion efficiency. We continue to push the envelope in white LED technology to enable the highest efficiency white lighting products in the marketplace.

While this level of performance is not yet available in Cree's production LEDs, Cree continues to lead the industry with the broadest family of high-performance LEDs.