Cree XP-E2 Announced!

bose301s · September 21, 2012, 6:12am

September 20, 2012
Cree Extends Leadership with Introduction of Brighter, More Efficient XLamp® XP-E2 LEDs
Doubles the Lumens-Per-Dollar and Delivers Up To 20 Percent More Lumens Per Watt Over Original XP-E LED
DURHAM, NC —

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) introduces the new XLamp® XP-E2 LED, delivering higher lumens per watt and lumens-per-dollar to lower system costs for existing XP-E and XP-G designs. The new XP-E2 LEDs can increase the lumen output of XP-E designs for the same cost and power or lower system cost with fewer LEDs – enabling lighting manufacturers to deliver a better lighting system with minimal redesign.

“The price to performance ratio is an important consideration for our design process,” said Erik Milz, vice president of marketing, Terralux. “Since many of our products are based on Cree® XP-E LEDs, the new XP-E2 LED is a significant upgrade in performance, helping to keep design costs down and speeding time-to-market for our solutions.”

The XP-E2 LEDs use the same XP footprint (3.45mm x 3.45mm) and are optically compatible with all XP LED designs, including the popular XP-E and XP-G LEDs. The XP-E2 LEDs also enable a broad range of high-lumen applications, from indoor and outdoor lighting to portable and lamp retrofits.

The latest Cree offering to be built on the revolutionary SC3 Technology™ next generation LED platform, the XP-E2 LEDs deliver up to 128 lumens per watt at 350 mA, 85°C or 143 lumens per watt at 350mA, 25°C in cool white (6000K). The SC3 Technology next generation LED platform is built with Cree’s advanced silicon carbide technology, features advancements in LED chip architecture and phosphor and showcases a new package design to deliver the most advanced lighting-class LED components in the industry.

Luminaire makers seeking ENERGY STAR® qualification will have access to specification and performance data, including LM-80 reports, which can speed time-to-market. XP-E2 LEDs are a “successor” product to the original XP-E LED for LM-80 data – accelerating qualification of luminaires using just 3000 hours of LM-80 data, instead of the normal 6000 hours.

Cree XLamp XP-E2 LED samples are available now and production quantities are available with standard lead times. XP-E2 LEDs are available in 2700K to 7000K color temperatures with minimum CRI options of 70, 80, 85 and 90. To learn more, please visit www.cree.com/accelerate.

About Cree
Cree is leading the LED lighting revolution and making energy-wasting traditional lighting technologies obsolete through the use of energy-efficient, mercury-free LED lighting. Cree is a market-leading innovator of lighting-class LEDs, LED lighting, and semiconductor products for power and radio frequency (RF) applications.

Cree’s product families include LED fixtures and bulbs, blue and green LED chips, high-brightness LEDs, lighting-class power LEDs, power-switching devices and RF devices. Cree products are driving improvements in applications such as general illumination, backlighting, electronic signs and signals, power suppliers and solar inverters.

For additional product and company information, please refer to www.cree.com. To learn more about the LED Lighting Revolution, please visit www.creeledrevolution.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties, both known and unknown, that may cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated. Actual results may differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that actual savings will vary from expectations; the risk we may be unable to manufacture these new products with sufficiently low cost to offer them at competitive prices or with acceptable margins; the risk we may encounter delays or other difficulties in ramping up production of our new products; customer acceptance of LED products; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render Cree’s products obsolete; and other factors discussed in Cree’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 24, 2012, and subsequent filings.

ENERGY STAR® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

http://www.cree.com/led-components-and-modules/products/xlamp/discrete-directional/xlamp-xpe2

Slim_Pickens · September 21, 2012, 6:50am

I’ve always had a soft spot for the little XP-E.
The little emitter that could…throw!

Aw, I was hoping they’d manage to lower the thermal resistance. Still 9C/W. Oh well, it’s still a sweet upgrade. Tighter emission pattern too, 110 degrees.

kreisler · September 21, 2012, 6:42am

it's time to update the LED in the E09, E10, E11 then.

i'd buy my 8th copy of the E09 if it came with the new XP-E2 emitter!!

Manual_Man · September 21, 2012, 7:13am

Darn it! I misread it as XR-E2 :bigsmile: … ahh well still awesome news!

XML2 cant be too far off then.

Slim_Pickens · September 24, 2012, 2:01am

Does Cree’s new package design do away with those little solder pads that are on the topside corners of the original XP and XM-L packages?

apt323 · September 21, 2012, 6:56pm

Will they be upgrading the red xpe to xpe2 if so that would be super sweet.

Thanks for the info

Posted on iphone

JohnnyMac · September 21, 2012, 6:55pm

The little XP-E in my Maratac Cu is great. Having a new gen version would be awesome!

Pok · September 21, 2012, 7:15pm

I’m waiting for “XO-L”

Round LED 2500 lumens @ 30W 10sqr mm.

LOL

how2 · September 21, 2012, 7:28pm

I'm hoping XR-E2 next

bose301s · September 21, 2012, 7:29pm

I have no actual clue if an XR-E2 is coming, but I wouldn’t necessarily expect it, the XR-E is 5+ years old and somewhat dying off.

Manual_Man · September 23, 2012, 6:58am

Bose you may know the answer to this question (sorry its a little off topic):

Are old LEDs still in production ( e.g the XR-E ) benefiting from the gains in efficiency being achieved in other LEDs ( e.g XP-G ): e.g the XP-G can do upwards of 100 lm / W (at ~4W ) while a XR-E R2 does something like 70 lm / W (again at 4W).

Surely it makes sense to use the same tech from the XP-G under the dome of the XR-E?

budynabuick · September 23, 2012, 8:39pm

I thought I had all my leds’ in a row now they will drive me nuts with
the latest/greatest releases. Bah, humbug! I think I will just go strictly drop-ins’ & just get e to keep me updated.

Keith

bose301s · September 24, 2012, 3:01am

They all do use the same base, just then dived into different sizes for different packages and the packaged, so the base is the same technology, however the package, I.e. phosphors, domes, etc are obviously different and effect the final product, so I dont know that part because that’s not where I work, so I guess my answer is possibly lol.

Manual_Man · September 24, 2012, 10:04am

Cheers Bose

I guess the increased performance seen on a few threads on here regarding pushing the latest XR-Es well above 2A points towards some form of improvement over the original, I guess I wont know until I buy another torch to compare them against: I think a A60 with the latest XR-E I can find driven at around 2.5A should tell me.

brted · September 24, 2012, 2:28pm

The XP-G2 has a different base (or something over the base). It looks all metal instead of green with corner square (I don’t think those are soldering pads). The XP-E2 is probably similar to the XP-G2.

veer · September 24, 2012, 3:22pm

Its strange that XP-E2 doesnt look anything like XP-E on the outside.

Slim_Pickens · September 25, 2012, 1:44am

The XP-G2’s larger dome extends to the edge of the base, while XP-G’s dome does not. Do larger domes reduce the apparent die size and surface brightness of the 2nd-gen XP emitters? Cree’s documentation states 20% more flux as well as a tighter beam profiles for the newer generation LEDs…but if the die appears larger through the dome any gains in surface brightness might be cancelled out <———- RAMPANT POSTULATION ON MY PART, probably not even true (and if it is true than so what?)