Cree Inc. has not settled with Gertrude Neumark Rothschild about LED patent. Now William G. Young, the district judge in the case in Massachusetts ordered the case to go before a jury.

At Lightfair 2010 in Las Vegas, Booth 746, Cree are relaunching their Raye fixture, which is now based on Cree MX-6 LEDs. Cree’s the XLamp® MX-6 LED with higher maximum forward drive current. At 1 A of current, XLamp MX-6 LEDs provide up to 300 lumens in cool white (6500 K) and 245 lumens in warm white (3000 K). The MX-6’s PLCC package is optimized for indoor lighting where enhanced light uniformity and LED-to-LED color consistency is important.

NNCrystal US Corporation of Fayetteville, Arkansas, a maker of colloidal nanocrystal materials that act as a light coverter, announces the company has signed a supply agreement with Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc. NNCrystal US Corporation will soon be supplying quantum dot to Acuity Brands Lighting for Acuity's LED lighting products.

To meet positive market demand in the mid to long term, Sharp Corporation of Japan has decided to start mass production of blue LED chips at its Fukuyama Plant in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan within 2010, as well and to expand materials procurement. This will boost Sharp's production capacity of blue LED chips to approximately five billion units a year in fiscal 2011.

Osram Sylvania has introduced a general-purpose LED light designed to replace screw-in incandescent, halogen, or compact fluorescent bulbs. The company said that it is working on a 75-watt replacement which is an LED.

Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED lighting, will be showcasing its lighting fixtures, lamps and components in Booth 149 during the Lightfair 2010 show held May 12 to 14 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

GE's new Energy Smart(R) 9-watt LED bulb operates differently, distributing light like a traditional 40-watt incandescent bulb while delivering excellent light output over its 25,000-hour rated life. they are on retail store shelves later this year.

PC memory company Rambus has developed a process for making flat LED plates to replace overhead office lighting. The company will show off prototypes of a system that can lower the manufacturing costs of LED lighting for commercial buildings and flat-panel displays at the Lightfair Intenrational conference.

Lemnis Lighting has introduced an LED bulb called the Pharox 500, which puts out 500 lumens of light and can be used as a more efficient bulb for traditional home lighting tasks.

Royal Philips Electronics has launched an LED bulb that will be mass-produced as a replacement for the common 60-watt light bulb.

Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba International Corporation (TIC) of Japan, will launch the innovative E-Core(TM) LED product line to extend the North American lighting market. The E-Core(TM) line along with E-Core(TM) prototype technologies for the global market, which include the lighting industry's brightest LED products, are being unveiled at LIGHTFAIR(R) International, May 12-14 in Las Vegas at booth number 1075.

Cree, Inc., launchs a new high-output six-inch LED downlight featuring Cree TrueWhite™ Technology. The LR6-DR1000 delivers 70 percent more light than the original LR6™ and features an aesthetically-pleasing, 20-degree shield angle for lighting designs that require greater brightness control.

Samsung Group of Seoul Korea has planed to invest $20.6 billion in technologies including solar cells, rechargeable cells for hybrid electric vehicles, LED technologies, biopharmaceuticals and medical devices. Samsung Group's largest individual investment planned is $7.5 billion in LED technology applications such as backlit TVs and displays, lighting and car electronics.

California based start-up company Porifera Inc., has ordered one Black Magic CNT system from AIXTRON AG. Successfully installed by the local AIXTRON support team at Porifera’s state-of-the-art facility in Hayward, CA, USA, the system enabled the first CNT material to be grown within less than a week.

Tyco Electronics Corporation and Redwood Systems, a manufacturer of network-based lighting power and control systems, has announced a strategic collaboration to pioneer Redwood Systems’ new lighting platform in the commercial lighting market.

GlacialTech Inc. has released the GL-SD15, a DC-powered, 19W Light Emitting Diode (LED) spotlight/floodlight. This LED portable light is perfect for outdoor activity lighting like tailgate parties and camping with its ability to feed off of small, 11-15V/22-30V DC power sources and its -20° to 40°C operating temperature range. Users can easily hook it right up to car batteries. Completely dust and water proof, the GL-SD15 is the perfect outdoor, LED portable light. Specifications

Cree, Inc. announces a new LED-based troffer that delivers more than 100 lumens per Watt fixture efficacy, the first indoor fixture known to deliver this level of performance. Cree says it will be reducing the price of its award-winning LR24 LED troffer by 15 percent to reduce upfront cost and accelerate the LED lighting revolution.

Molex Incorporated has announced the availability of its LED Printed Circuit Assemblies, which will be displayed at LIGHTFAIR International, booth 1741, May 12-14 in Las Vegas. Combining Molex's LED and Printed Circuit Assembly design and manufacturing expertise, these dependable and efficient custom-lighting solutions work seamlessly for LED subassemblies across several industries.

Cree, Inc., announces it is extending the warranty on its entire family of fixture products to five years. Lengthening the warranty lets customers know that Cree stands behind the long-term performance and reliability of our fixtures. Ty Mitchell, Cree vice president and general manager, LED Lighting said that they have almost 20,000 hours of real-world data on products from their early installations nearly three years ago, and the performance is rock solid.

AIXTRON AG has announced an order for one Close Coupled Showerhead MOCVD system from Tyndall National Institute, based in University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. The order was received in the fourth quarter 2009 and the system will be delivered in the first half of 2010 in a 3x2 inch wafer configuration.

Carmanah Technologies is unveiling some exciting additions to its line of EverGEN™ solar LED lighting products at LIGHTFAIR® 2010. Carmanah will reveal new wireless features for the thinnest, brightest solar light ever produced. More efficient LEDs and new occupancy sensing capabilities are increasing the applications for solar lighting and LightFair attendees will be the first to see Carmanah’s pioneering advancements that will change the way solar LED lighting can be used.

SemiLEDs Corporation, a manufacturer of ultra high bright LED and UV chips, has announced today that they are increasing their production capacity of UV LED chips with the addition of a new SR 4000 MOCVD reactor from Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation.

Texas Instruments Inc. announces its new TMS320C2000 Piccolo microcontroller (MCU) DC/DC LED Developer’s Kit to allow designers to differentiate designs with advanced features such as dimming, color tone adjustment, power line communication and fault detection.

Lighting Science Group is offering a new line of LED products, which are built in the USA, including A19, PAR38, PAR30, PAR20, MR16, and G25 bulb. The company claims that they have approximately 50 percent more lumens than competing products, at a dramatically lower retail price. 

Diguang International Development Co., Ltd. will participate in the 2010 China Optoelectronics and Display EXPO at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center on May 8 ~ 10, 2010. Diguang will showcase the Company's CCFL and LED backlights and liquid crystal modules, 19", 22", 24" LED ultra-slim monitors, and 19", 22", 32", 42" and 46" LED TVs. Visitors can view Diguang's products at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center booth No. A013.

Philips Lumileds has published a new white paper titled “Evaluating the Lifetime Behavior of LED Systems” that provides the lighting industry with a methodology for evaluating how arrays of LEDs behave over time and how LED luminaire manufacturers can confidently make business decisions such as warranty commitments.

Skyline Exhibits, has adds new LED lighting options to its product Line of Canadian Trade Show Exhibits，which includes a variety of LED lighting options from simple one-color washes of light to multi-color light shows.

The 6th "Light + Building 2010" held in Frankfurt, Germany, closed on April 16 with a big success. It is the world's largest and most professional building and lighting technology exhibition, combining the electrical engineering, construction technology, and automatic professional lighting technology(Messe Frankfurt); This year, around the world in more than 2100, a total of more than 50 countries, well-known exhibitors made their way to Frankfurt for the world’s leading trade fair for architure and technology.

Axiom NZ LED of Las Vegas, Nevada and AoTuroaLED of Auckland, New Zealand announced today that the companies are offering a "Green Step Forward" program for the month of May 2010 that facilitates the worldwide effort to reduce one's Carbon Footprint.

Novaled, a leading company in OLEDs for display and lighting applications, demonstrated it’s know how and expertise on efficient and long lifetime OLEDs on metal at the Light and Building Frankfurt.