PHILPS Lumileds:LUXEON LED cumulative shipments of over one billion.

August 4, 2010 - California - San Jose, Philips Lumileds today released 1000000000th power LUXEON LED sold in the second quarter of 2010. In the past few years, the company continued to invest in capacity and infrastructure so that the demand for large shipments of customers in the current has been fully met. In the past two years, Philips Lumileds for automotive, lighting and consumer electronics customers with 750 million power LUXEON LEDs. In order to lighting new era today, Philips Lumileds through 10 years in the technical field of innovation, the formation of the leadership and established its leading position in support of customer development and launch new lighting solutions.

CEO Michael Holt said, "this is not only the milepost of the company, but also the entire industry milepost. In the early days, many people in the industry to Lumileds power LEDs to change the nature of the lighting of the concept of doubt. Today, they and other industry has followed we entered this is constantly for more energy-efficient lighting applications and illuminate our lives by competitor identity, driven by new methods of work and entertainment industry."

From the beginning, Philips Lumileds has clarified its mission is to through the application of the power LED, creating a new world of lighting. Before the Philips Lumileds invention power LED drive current - a LEDs 350 mA or a little higher usually can only send an, two lumens of light. Today, LUXEON power LEDs can emit 100 lumens of light and is through LED lighting, street lights, car headlights illuminate all lcd.

LUXEON Rebel ES as the latest addition to the product line of white LEDs, can emit more than 300 lumens of white light.