Any ideas or theories on what the next new cree emitter for flashlights will be? The xp-g and xm-l were nice when they came out, so will we be similarly happy with the next cree emitter? maybe it will be a newer thrower type small die
Cree has never once made an emitter for flashlights, it just so happens that they work in them.
Probably a quadruple XB-D.
And the sarcastic thing is, the objectives of Cree creating the LED are for street lighting, automotive, and many other general purposes. But in fact how many street lights or automotive lamp have we seen that actually use Cree LED? 
The entire Cree campus is lit by LEad streetlights and all the buildings use LED lighting so I've seen a lot of it personally. [quote=bibihang]
And the sarcastic thing is, the objectives of Cree creating the LED are for street lighting, automotive, and many other general purposes. But in fact how many street lights or automotive lamp have we seen that actually use Cree LED?
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XB-D or XT-E would sure be interesting, so far looks like nobody knows how they will work and behave in flashlights.
How about the world outside of Cree campus? Cars headlamp any? Maybe Cree LED will be widely applied in many areas in the future, but for now I think it is not yet.
they just did my streetlight in leds..no clue what they are as they are too far away..also the hill leading to where I work has them also..same light but again no clue what leds they use..there are 30 or so leds in one light though..
Something i have been wondering about for a long time and now that we have bose301 maybe I can get some answers. I know cree makes millions\billions? of XPGs, XMLs, XPEs, XREs etc. and only an insignificant number are used in flashlights. Where are all of the devices/fixtures that use them? Not LED in general but specifically the Cree emitters that we use. I know they are out there and I want to see some cool fixtures that use XMLs and such.
maybe they use them in led lcd tv's?
I know the headlights on the new forklifts at work are led. Must be cree there’s a cluster of four behind a slightly diffused plastic covrt. Bright and bluish tint
maybe they will just improve the current led's by making them more efficent by offering higher bin's. It seems like heat is the biggest limiting factor in flashlights right now.
At a builder show last year I saw custom residential lighting manufacturers that used CREEs in all of their offerings.
There was another similar booth, directly across the aisle, whose products were all Seoul-based.
I waited around a bit for a fight, but none broke out.
I wonder how long it will take until the first flashaholics begin to "harvest" the LEDs growing along the roads because they got the cold turkey after having waited too long for DX to take notice of their orders...
From reading articles on the subject of Cree and flashlights, they don't think twice about that kind of thing. It's small scale compared to worldwide sales of other lighting venues. I have also read that newer LEDs will aim at a wider angle of emission, to better use them in home and outdoor lighting, so that's bad for flashlights. We use them, but it seems they will never be optimum for our uses.
Of course the more I read, the more trouble I get into.
Actually there is a short portion of a roadway around my city here the street lights has been changed into LED light source (though I'm not sure whether it is Cree), and they appear very dimly at night. I wonder is it suitable to put it into a street light since the lumens output of LED (even for Cree) is still a long way behind those metal halide, HPS or whatsoever for the current technologies they have. It's good to know that the application of Cree is getting more and more out there, maybe it's just my country not using that many or it's just my ignorance.
By the way, I am really looking forward to see a car that equiped LED into its headlamp, when can we see that? For the moment even a very common H4 halogen bulb can put out much higher lumens than a LED, I don't know if this is why they still never use it on automobile yet.
Just exactly what I thought! Their manufacturing objectives has never concern about flashlights, and as a flashaholics I totally understand the fact: only very limited flashaholics like us out there to make the flashlight as a Big Customer for Cree. Just wonder where did they sell it to. Is it possible that Cree stop manufacturing XR-E emitters one day and our next generation do not have the chance to play around with thrower flashlight? 
A lot of the LEDs are being used in China, in general and street lighting. Also a lot of US cities and stuff are starting to install LED street lighting etc. Cree actually has a lot of lighting products that we sell, but I don't know a ton about our end products because that's not the area I work in. Here's some of our lighting products.
The town I live in just put in over $90,000 of Cree on the streets. :) It looks really good.