Bridgelux in the News

The Fabulous Swoboda Brothers
LED lighting's not-so-heated sibling rivalry
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Seagate's former CEO lights up
Tech veteran Watkins talks about why he took the top job at LED maker Bridgelux.
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Let There Be More-Efficient Light, Former Seagate Chief Says
Bill Watkins had a lot of career choices to consider after his surprise departure a year ago as chief executive of Seagate Technology. Now he’s found his new focus–illumination.
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Former Seagate C.E.O. Bill Watkins Joins an LED Start-Up
“There are no titles. You’re just this group of people with a single-focused endeavor, and I like that feeling, that camaraderie. That’s what got me excited.”
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From Disk Drives To LEDs
Former Seagate CEO Bill Watkins to head lighting firm Bridgelux.
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Can the Future Be Built in America?
The manufacturing exodus from the U.S. is accelerating, but smarter tax policies, low-cost loans, and industrial zones may help keep factories at home
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The Next Energy Innovators
BusinessWeek and GreenBiz.com have assembled a list of 25 intriguing energy startups, including young companies that tap geothermal heat, turn waste into biodiesel, and more...
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This is not Edison's Lightbulb
Bridgelux CEO Mark Swoboda says his company's technology is reinventing the lightbulb.
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IST next generation recessed downlights incorporate Bridgelux LED Arrays
Bridgelux Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA says that UK-based IST (Lighting) has introduced recessed LED downlights (the DL range) using Bridgelux LED Arrays in cool, neutral and warm white colour temperatures.
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Driving Responsibly
Geoff Archenhold explains why LED driver reliability will be essential for SSL to succeed?
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You Want Better Clean Energy? Build A Better Energy Storage System
Investor's Business Daily conducted a Q and A with Alan Salzman, chief executive of VC firm VantagePoint. VantagePoint plans on putting $1 billion into clean tech in the next few years. So what's he seeing on the horizon?
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A Lightbulb the Size of a Quarter
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Bridgelux Introduces LED Arrays for Solid-state Lighting
Multi-chip arrays from Bridgelux are likely to be priced at around $0.02 per lumen in warm white and $0.01 per lumen in cool white.
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LED die Maker Bridgelux Introduces Range of Multi-die Power LEDs
Californian LED die maker Bridgelux has introduced a range of multi-die power LEDs up to 2,000 lm.
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Bridgelux Rolls LED Arrays for Lighting Apps
Seeking to reduce the cost and complexity of light-emitting diode (LED) technology, Bridgelux Inc. has expanded its strategy and rolled out an LED array product line for use in solid-state lighting and other applications.
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New LED Aims to Whack Prices of Solid State Lighting
Light bulbs are the last bastion of vacuum tube technology. But solid state lighting has always been too expensive. Bridgelux says it can cut the cost by cutting components.
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Bridgelux Arrays Simplify LED Lighting
The vertically integrated manufacturer believes that avoiding packaging LED die before producing arrays is a key step towards lamps that compete effectively with compact fluorescent bulbs.
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Bridgelux Launches LED Arrays for Solid-state Lighting
Bridgelux Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, which designs and makes power LED chips based on ITO/InGaN (indium tin oxide/indium gallium nitride), has launched an LED array product line to provide high-performance, compact and cost-effective light sources for solid-state lighting (SSL).
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Bridgelux Sees Huge Market For Environmentally Sensitive LED Lights By 2012
Silicon Valley startup Bridgelux said Tuesday that a roughly $10 billion annual market for low-power LED lights should exist by 2012.
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Bridgelux Introduces LED Arrays for Solid-State Lighting
Bridgelux, Inc., a supplier of energy saving LED technology, has introduced an LED array product line that provides high performance, compact and cost-effective light sources for solid-state lighting (SSL).
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White LEDs: A penny for your lumen?
Environmentally conscious consumers can rest easy. Bridgelux Inc., a solid-state lighting company in Sunnyvale, Calif., adopted a "penny per lumen" slogan to make white LED's more affordable for consumers and their wallets.
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Fan propels third company toward public arena
A company looking for explosive growth would do well to look to Gloria Fan for financial guidance. Barely in her 40s , Fan already has helped shepherd two Silicon Valley venture-backed companies into the public arena.
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Lighting the Way to Efficiency
Energy-efficient lighting startups are competing to deliver power savings through a variety of technologies, including microplasma lights, high-intensity discharge lighting ballast systems, organic light-emitting diodes and other.
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Greentech Innovations: LED Lights to Drop by 50% or More Next Year?
Penny per lumen. It’s a good slogan and one Mark Swoboda, CEO of LED maker Bridgelux, says his company will live up to early next year.
In early 2009, the company plans to release a series of white light LEDs that will allow manufacturers to make LED light fixtures that cost 50 percent less than current LED fixtures, he said in an interview. The discount might even be larger.
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Will the Computer Giants Invade Lighting Too?
This year, we saw Intel, IBM, LG and others jump into the solar market, following a path blazed by Applied Materials two years ago. Cisco, Freescale and several startups like GainSpan are busy porting wireless chips and equipment originally designed for consumer electronics and computers into smart meters and energy efficient appliances. WiMax, the wireless broadband protocol, is coming to connect homes and utilities. What will the computer world colonize next? Probably lighting.
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Green Tech Startup Weathers Downturn By Sticking To Its Business Plan And Seeking New Money
Bridgelux may be more fortunate than many Silicon Valley startups. The Sunnyvale maker of LED chips for the commercial lighting market has a substantial sum of money in the bank after raising $30 million in March. It also has products in the market, announcing in June volume shipments of its latest NLX-5 energy-saving diode.
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Clean Tech Funding May Be Squeezed, But VC Points To Four Hot Startupst
Clean-tech startups may be having a tough time getting money, but the financial turmoil gripping Wall Street hasn’t diminished their market opportunities.
Green technology companies may do to the lighting, auto and electric industries what computer-technology companies did to information technology over the past decades, said Stephan Dolezalek, managing director at VantagePoint Venture Partners.
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Bridgelux adds marketing and sales execs in US and Europe
Bridgelux Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, which designs and makes ITO/InGaN-based LED chips for solid-state lighting (using high-volume production capacity in Asia), has appointed Keith Scott as VP of business development and David Barnby (based in Paris, France) as VP of sales and general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
(Semiconductor Today, 23 April 2008)
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LED lighting company raises $30 million from VCs
LONDON — Bridgelux Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), a supplier of LED technology for solid-state lighting founded in 2002, has announced that is it has raised $30 million in private equity investment and approximately $10 million of lines of credit with banks.
(EE Times Europe, 04/08/2008)
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Bridgelux gets $40M new financing
Bridgelux Inc., a supplier of LED technology for high-volume, solid state lighting markets, said Tuesday it received about $40 million in its latest round of financing.
(Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, Tuesday, April 8, 2008)
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Entrepreneur Magazine selects Bridgelux CTO Heng Liu as a “Next Gen Innovator”
As founder and CTO of Bridgelux, Dr. Heng Liu is selected as one of the technology innovators featured in Entrepreneur Magazine’s cover story
(Entrepreneur Magazine, Sep, 2006)
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Bridgelux is ideally typical of next push in solid state lighting
Bridgelux’s high level of talent and experience in R&D and management is highlighted
(LIGHTimes Online, Aug. 31, 2006): 
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KO series LED chip by Bridgelux pushes barrier for overall light extraction
The scalable KO LED chip series yields a 10-30% increase in light output efficiency and includes the only 60-mil chip available in production volumes today.
(Optics.org, Jul 14, 2006)
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