Philips Lumileds announced a new mid-voltage LED for street lights, Cree added high-voltage LEDs for small form-factor SSL applications, and both companies have introduced new mid-power LEDs in plastic packages.

Philips Lumileds formally announced the Luxeon M LED, that includes an array of four emitters, and that has already been specified for use in street lights. Cree has added to its third-generation LED platform with new high-voltage XLamp XT-E and XM-L LEDs that are optimized for small driver size and small solid-state lighting (SSL) applications such as retrofit candelabra lamps. Both companies have new mid-power LEDs that utilize plastic packages yet target general-lighting applications.

The Philips Lumileds Luxeon M is designed to simplify luminaires designed for street- and area-lighting, and industrial applications by enabling the use of fewer components. Indeed the packaged devices with four emitters can output as much as 1100 lm depending on color temperature.

The input voltage for the LEDs is typically 11.2V