E(fficiency) = MC-E

Cree’s new MC-E LED blazes a bright new trail for LEDs “Brighter” often means “bigger” in the lighting fixture world. By the time they’re plastered to buildings, bulky neon and unwieldy incandescent lamps can have footprints several times those of comparable LEDs. Now, with Cree’s new MC-E LED, you can get four times the glow, but your bulbs won’t grow. Cree, a manufacture of semi-conductor materials and leader in solid-state lighting, has announced the newest addition to its industry-leading LED XLamp family -- the MC-E LED -- the industry’s first lighting-class multi-chip LED. The MC-E LED is just another break through chip in a string of lighting revelations to come from Cree’s research facilities at its Durham, North Carolina headquarters. The MC-E LED retains the same 7mm x 9mm footprint as Cree’s existing XLamp XR family LEDs while providing four times the light output of the existing XR-E, the highest lumen output for a chip package of its size. At 9.8W, the XLamp MC-E LED provides up to 790 lumens at 6000K and up to 605 lumens at 3000K. Each LED chip in MC-E’s four chip package is individually accessible, which creates infinite RGB lighting possibilities. The CRI for cool white and neutral white (3,700 K - 10,000 K CCT) is 75. CRI for warm white (2,600 K - 3,700 K CCT) is 80. With Cree, LED footprints shrink as the bulbs and fixtures grow brighter! Application-wise, this increased LED brightness translates to more portability. Cree’s MC-E LEDs can change the way designers create roadway and parking lights. “Imagine the design implications for something like a street light -- if you could reduce the size by roughly 75 percent without compromising on lumen output,” said Norbert Hiller, Cree vice president and general manager for lighting LEDs. A reduction in the number of components used in public lighting projects also means less environmental waste. Earlier this year, Cree introduced XLamp XP-E and XP-C LEDs. The revolutionary lamps 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! Cree’s latest leap in LED lighting is good news for LED*Waves and their customers who have been radiantly reaping the benefits of the XRE chip in bulbs and fixtures since its introduction. It is only a matter of time before the new wave of bulbs powered by the newest Cree chip pushes the LED revolution from the edge of imagination to the front lines of application.