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Lighting & LEDs
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LoRaWAN Based Street Lighting Becomes a Reality
New LoRaWAN communication standard with its smart streetlight control system.
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Cree: Lighting Up North America
Cree Inc was one of the first companies to focus on LED and today it is lighting up North America.
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GE’s $10 LED Bulbs: A Death Knell for CFLs?
Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) is likely to come to an end as GE Lighting introduces its low-cost Bright stik LEDs.
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Blues in the Light: Human-Centric Illumination Takes Hold
Lighting that affects human emotions opens a market opportunity for LED manufacturers.
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Bidding War Erupts Over ISSI
Cypress made another bid for the specialty memory company after a Chinese backed venture capital consortium topped Cypress’ original bid.
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Industrial Chip Growth to Slow in 2015
The industrial chip market was worth $40 billion in 2014 and exceeded expectations with year-on-year growth of 18%. It is set to settle back to 7% growth in 2015 and to average 6% annual growth through 2019.
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Power Management Chips Set for More Growth
Demand in automotive and industrial applications helped sales of power management semiconductors in 2014 and will do so again in 2015, according to IHS Technology.
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Smart Lighting Steals the Show at LightFair 2015
LightFair 2015 showcased the latest light-based technologies, with so-called “smart lighting” generating the lion's share of the buzz.
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Philips to Supply Lighting for Dutch Airport
Deal to provide fixtures and installations for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol seen as early example of “lighting-as-a-service” business model.
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Apple Wins Place in Top 25 Chip Vendor Ranking
A change in product categorization by IHS saw Apple break into the top 25 among chip vendors in a strong growth year. Slower growth is expected this year, partly due to sluggish conditions in the memory sector.
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EU Halogen Ban Postponed Until 2018
Ban, originally planned for September 2016, is part of wider strategy to promote more energy-efficient technologies like compact fluorescent and LED bulbs.
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Tridonic Launches LED Driver
Lighting company delivers LED driver with digital interface that directly transfers digital data to the mains cable, allowing for the upgrading of non-dimmable luminaire installations to be equipped with dimmable LED products.
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Cree Rolls LED Module
Firm claims drop in replacement for LMH module offers 30 percent better performance than its predecessor.
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Lumileds Well Positioned in Lighting Market
Lumileds, formerly known as Philips Lighting, finished the 2014 year strong gaining market share over its competitors and rising to the fourth overall LED company worldwide.
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Could This Be Graphene's Lightbulb Moment?
A UK startup claims the graphene-LED lightbulb could be the first mass market application for the 2D-form of carbon. However, the claimed benefits of superior efficiency and longevity are unlikely to matter as much as the quality of the light output.
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Philips to Sell Lighting Business
Deal, worth $3.3 billion, will result in Philips LED and lighting business being spun off into a new company called Lumileds.
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Cree Rolls Outdoor LED Series
Utility lights target replacement of street and area light fixtures in rural areas of North America.
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Acuity Brands Buys Distech Controls
Acuity will use the technology from Distech to help enhance its smart buildings and smart cities market.
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A Bright Idea: Using Light to Transmit Data
The idea of Light Fidelity, or Li-Fi, has people thinking about a different part of the electromagnetic spectrum that's available for data transmission—light.
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Integrated LED Lighting Poised to Challenge Traditional Light Bulbs
With 42 percent of light bulb shipments expecting to be LED replacement lamps by 2022, integrated LED bulbs—which combine the LED and driver electronic into the luminaire itself—are gaining traction in the replacement market.
