With Lighting Science Group acquiring Lamina, Philips absorbing Color Kinetics then Genlyte, and Cree absorbing LLF, on top of Acuity acquiring Io, and other similar combination over the last year, it would see that solid0state market is already trying to gel up. Are we really already at the point where its time to focus on market share over innovation? Is this technology already at the point where we know where this is all going, and its time to build the big conglomerates to satisfy the mainstream demand with already known product? I don’t think so (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Philips’
Consolidation
Posted: December 21, 2008 in General SSL CommentaryTags: Cree, Home lighting, LED, Lighting, Philips, Solid-state lighting, SSL
GE and Philips Focus on LEDs
Posted: December 2, 2008 in General SSL CommentaryTags: conservation, GE, LEDs, Lighting, Philips, Solid-state lighting, SSL
The following two quotes say more than I can (gathered from recent news releases and related blogs).
From Philips:
“We are not spending one dollar on research and development for compact fluorescents,” said Kaj den Daas, chairman and chief executive of Philips Lighting. Instead, the bulk of its R.& D. budget, which is 5.2 percent of the company’s global lighting revenue, is for L.E.D. research.
From General Electric:
GE spokesman David Schuellerman replied that “GE Consumer & Industrial and GE Global Research have suspended the development of the high-efficiency incandescent lamp (HEI) to place greater focus and investment on what we believe will be the ultimate in energy efficient lighting — light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).”
For anyone in the lighting and energy industry, (more…)
Without Quality – LED Retroifts Will Fail
Posted: January 2, 2014 in General Commentary, UncategorizedTags: CFL, Cree, Home lighting, LED, LED Art, LEDs, Lighting, Philips, Retrofit LED lamps, Solid-state, Solid-state lighting, SSL
The recent article: LED Bulb Efficiency Surges, But Light Quality Lags states very well the findings of the DOE and others reviewing LED retrofit lamp performance. While well stated, there are severl missing dynamic issues in the conversation that need to be included if LED is to overcome the failure of the CFL to capture the consumer market it so desperately seeks to dominate.
While efficient, there has been no great interest in the consumer market to lamps with poorer quality at higher prices.
The CFL lamp has failed in the consumer market for these reasons:
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