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To: mtnlady who wrote (16889)	4/28/2000 11:58:00 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

having lived in europe for 10 years i do understand some of the companies fairly well... siemens is now a conglomerate...when i lived in berlin they seemed to be mostly an electrical company....osram a sub is probably the largest light bulb mfr in europe. they have other products as well...you can buy an osram light bulb anywhere in europe. i never saw a ge bulb over there. i believe osram is making the leds from cree and/or siemens SiC. or they are getting the led chips from siemens...i'll try to get a better handle on that for you. at any rate, i believe siemens has some small SiC production and buys the rest from cree. everyone would like to figure out a way around cree's crystal patents....can they? and can they do it cheaper? westinghouse, GE and others have tried and failed...that is why my bet is on cree.