When it comes to LED lighting, CREE is the market leader in innovation and research. Since 1987, CREE has dedicated itself to producing safe, energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly LED lighting options. Their product line currently includes a wide variety of LED products, including fixtures, bulbs, and blue and green chips, as well as power-switching and radio frequency (RF) equipment.

Over the last 27 years, CREE has worked tirelessly to develop new technologies to replace unsafe and costly traditional lighting options. CREE's first LED product -- the blue LED -- was launched in 1989, and today the product is known as CREE's XLamp LEDs, considered the first "lighting-class" LEDs in the market. Since then, CREE has continued to expand its product portfolio, with some of their latest products including the industry's first 8000 lumen LED module for high ceiling applications.

Today, CREE continues to advance LED technologies and is constantly working on new innovations. CREE currently holds over 1,200 patents in the US, and has another 1,000 patents currently pending. And globally, CREE holds over 2,100 foreign patents, with another over 2,300 pending.

CREE is headquartered in Durham, NC, and has global offices in Sweden, Taiwan, China, Canada, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan and Malaysia.