DURHAM, N.C. — Cree Inc. here today announced that a Japanese court has dismissed a suit filed by Nichia Corp. against Sumitomo Corp., one of Cree's distributors in Japan. Nichia's original suit–filed ...

Some of the major LED manufacturers are often, more strictly speaking, LED packagers. (For more on this topic, read Innovative packaging improves LEDs’ light output, lifetime, and reliability.) To get ...

Cree, one of the companies most closely associated with the development of high-brightness emitters now widely used in solid-state lighting, is to exit the LED business. The Durham, North Carolina, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Cree Inc. said Wednesday after the bell that it has signed a patent cross license agreement with Nichia Corp. relating to LED technology for solid-state white lighting.