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To: w2j2 who wrote (1694)	11/23/1998 3:05:00 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

Dear Walter: I am trying to decide whether CREE is working in conjunction with MVIS or is a competitor. Meanwhile, I really missed a nice jump in CREE today. A little of CREE's press release from the other day. Sure looks similar to MVIS product?? JDN Cree Announces LED Product Line For Solid State Lighting The Company Is Currently Shipping Into Solid State White Light Applications DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Cree Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) today announced a light emitting diode (LED) product line for solid state lighting applications. The line will build on the company's existing blue LED products which are now being used in customer applications to generate solid state white light through conversion of blue light into white. The offerings will include new blue and ultraviolet LEDs, currently under development, that are designed to maximize conversion efficiency.

To: w2j2 who wrote (1694)	11/23/1998 10:23:00 PM
From: doormouse	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

Cree is the only American company selling large volumes of their own blue LEDs today. HP is quickly coming up next, but a bulk if not all their sales are chips they buy from Japan, package, and re-sell. However, current Cree chips are far inferior to the Japanese stuff (shorter wavelength - - 430 nm vs 450-470 nm most people want so Cree's LEDs look more violet,,, lower brightness too). They keep claiming they have improved to the level of Nichia, and have green chips as well, but the market haven't quite seen that yet... One of the major issues everyone has with the blue LEDs is chip uniformity across a wafer. So, it's relatively easy to make a few hero chips to report at a conference and not quite that easy to make them in volume. <GO MVIS!!> .k1b0