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SAN FRANCISCO, May 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Avi-on Labs and Bridgelux Inc. today announced a technology partnership to introduce a new standard in CSR Bluetooth based smart lighting products for the commercial market.

"We are proud to partner with the Bridgelux. We love the light quality and controllability of their engines," said Eric Miller, CEO of Avi-on. "Bridgelux's smart lighting products complement the Powered by Avi-on platform, and together make commercial smart lighting easy and inexpensive to deploy, use, and maintain, while scalable and secure." 

This is among the first of Bridgelux's smart lighting offerings on its recently announced Xenio™ platform, a family of smart, networkable LED arrays for the commercial, retail and industrial spaces. As a true open platform, the product is compatible with a broad variety of standards, protocols and other technologies to ensure ease of integration, greater value and future functionality.

Products will be available in three array sizes and feature tightly integrated controls, local intelligence and communication capabilities, smooth dimming, superior lighting quality and high efficacy available at 120 lumens per watt.

"We are thrilled to be partnering with Avi-on," said David Connors, VP of Marketing and Embedded Systems of Bridgelux. "As partners, we are creating an intelligent, networked light engine that provides ease of integration, performance, light quality and value that fits the needs of luminaire manufacturers and their end customers. We know that our customers seek simplicity and choice in control specifications, and Avi-on's Bluetooth Smart™ mesh platform brings a great technology to lighting controls."

The Powered by Avi-on™ platform offers a universal, turnkey app-cloud-module software solution that enables manufacturers to bring entire lines of products to market in less than six months. The platform includes plug and play firmware, iOS and Android mobile applications, a scalable and complete cloud service and a pre-certified radio module based on CSRmesh™. Powered by Avi-on offers secure network creation, real-time dimming, grouping, one-touch setup, schedules, multi-user support and cloud services.

Samples of Bridgelux's smart lighting product will be available in August 2015, with mass production beginning in January 2016.

On May 5 to 7, Avi-on will feature Powered by Avi-on at LightFair International in booth #3126 at LFI. Bridgelux will also showcase its newest line of smart lighting products at Light Fair International in booth #2847 in New York City. For inquiries on the show contactStacey Duncan at  staceyduncan@bridgelux.com or Dana Kunz at dana@avi-on.com.

About Avi-on

Avi-on Labs offers a turnkey lighting and controls platform that enables manufacturers to bring products to market in less than six months. The Powered by Avi-on™ app-cloud-firmware-module and support solution is the proven CSRmesh™ and Bluetooth Smart™ mesh lighting solution for global markets. Avi-on partners with Bridgelux to bring smart lighting to commercial markets. On the residential side, GE branded products produced by Jasco will be on Tier 1 retailer shelves this summer. For more information, visit www.avi-on.com/

About Bridgelux

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Headquartered in Livermore, California, Bridgelux employs more than 100 employees with global sales and services within international markets. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's LED arrays and chips replace traditional lighting technologies with integrated, solid-state lighting solutions that make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit www.bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux Xenio™solution brings together Bridgelux’s hardware and Harvard’s EyeNut technology to deliver individual control with individual modules, wirelessly—a benefit featured by no other smart lighting product on the market.

LIVERMORE, Calif., May 05, 2015 – Bridgelux, a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies, debuted the first of its integrated smart module suite of products today at the 2015 Light Fair International Conference in New York. Bridgelux’s Xenio product is compatible with a greater variety of standards, protocols and other technologies to ensure ease of integration, greater value and future functionality. With the launch of its first smart lighting product, Bridgelux is leading the industry’s evolution to integrated, smart light sources and enabling its customers to provide networkable LED arrays for the commercial, retail and industrial spaces.

The Xenio smart platform features tightly integrated controls, local intelligence and communications capabilities, and smooth dimming down to 0.1 percent of light output. In addition, the product delivers superior light quality and the highest efficacy integrated module now available on the market. Bridgelux worked with key technology partners and customers to include compelling features in this new platform to meet the demands of ease of integration, performance, light quality and value required by luminaire manufacturers and their end customers.

“Bridgelux is rethinking what it means to be innovative in the lighting industry,” said Brad Bullington, CEO of Bridgleux. “For our customers to succeed in a connected, data-driven future, we’re introducing new technologies that are integrated, efficient and compatible, that will position smart lighting arrays as the infrastructure to further enable the Internet of Things. This first generation product sets the tone for how Bridgelux is innovating through hardware and software to deliver compelling value propositions."

A truly open platform, the Xenio smart lighting array is designed to be compatible with multiple communication protocols including Bluetooth® Smart, Zigbee®, DMX 512, DALI® and common controls standards including 0-10V. The product has also been architected to enable advanced software, offering integration with Avi-on’s Bluetooth based system as well as Harvard Engineering’s EyeNut platform. These systems offer users the freedom to commission, configure and readily control their own lighting to optimize energy savings and the lighting experience.

“The Xenio platform brings together Bridgelux’s technology with Harvard’s EyeNut to enable point control with individual modules, wirelessly—a benefit that no other smart lighting product on the market can currently claim,” said Antony Corrie, Vice President of Harvard Americas. “By integrating Harvard’s technology with Xenio, the EyeNut solution can be used across a wide range of industry and commercial applications, driving unique value for each.”

Available in three array sizes, the smart lighting array self-monitors its real-time health and temperature and stores historical operating data in order to optimize performance and value with status reporting that is DMX 512/RDM capable.

The product is powered by the emerging 48 VDC standard, increasingly popular for its high efficiency while still being regulated as low voltage.  This forward looking standard offers multiple options for powering light fixtures. The Xenio solution features multiple options for 48 VDC power supplies including fixture integrated constant voltage power supplies, a room level power hub with Class 2 cabling that uses low voltage to power eight to 10 fixtures and a Power over Ethernet (PoE) data switch.

The product’s open, integrated platform is architected to help future-proof luminaire designs for easy, cost effective upgrades to future Bridgelux smart lighting products featuring, for example, innovative tunable white capabilities, sensor technology or other data-focused innovations. Samples of the product will be available in September 2015, with production availability beginning January 2016 in the U.S. and Europe. To experience the innovations of the Bridgelux smart lighting array, please visit booth 2847 at Lightfair International. For more information about Bridgelux products, please visit www.bridgelux.com.

About Bridgelux

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Headquartered in Livermore, California, Bridgelux employs more than 160 employees with global sales and services within international markets. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's LED arrays and chips replace traditional lighting technologies with integrated, solid-state lighting solutions that make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit www.bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux, the Bridgelux stylized logo design, and Xenio are registered trademarks of Bridgelux Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Sunnyvale, California, USA – April 4, 2006 – eLite Optoelectronics,
Inc., a leading supplier of energy saving, power-LED chips to high-volume
solid state lighting market segments, today announced that it has
raised $8.5 million in venture capital financing from DCM –
Doll Capital Management, El Dorado Ventures, and Harris & Harris
Group and changed its name to Bridgelux, Inc. The funding will be
used for continued capital investments and as well as intensified
research and development at the company’s new headquarters and
R&D facility in California’s Silicon Valley.

The Bridgelux name stems from the company’s “fabless"
business model, which is common in the silicon world, but remains
unique in the high brightness LED industry. While the company’s
corporate and R&D operations are located in the U.S., the company
manufactures its products in Asia.

Dr. Robert Walker, Bridgelux CEO, explains, “Bridgelux is leveraging
the best of U.S. technology and Asian manufacturing efficiencies,
effectively ‘bridging a gap’ that has hampered many companies
in their pursuit of leading-edge technology that can be affordably
deployed now, not some years down the road.” He further notes,
“Our mission is to enable the global acceleration and acceptance
of energy saving solid state lighting (SSL) by providing our customers
with advanced product performance while simultaneously achieving aggressive
cost reduction.”

Bridgelux investors and Board of Directors , Pete Moran, general partner
of DCM – Doll Capital Management and Scott Irwin, general partner
of El Dorado Ventures, have emerged within the venture capital community
as key backers of the promise of SSL technologies such as InGaN blue
spectrum LEDs.

“Far more energy-efficient than incandescent and fluorescent
lights, LED chips are poised to become a major source of lighting
in commercial and residential environments, and Bridgelux is at the
forefront of this global movement,” said DCM’s Mr. Moran.
“Bridgelux’s high-brightness LED innovations and efficient
manufacturing capabilities make it one of the most compelling players
in the SSL space.”

"We were initially attracted to Bridgelux by the company’s outstanding
technical team, which has already delivered a number of industry firsts,"
said El Dorado’s Mr. Irwin. He added, "We’re very excited
about the opportunities for Bridgelux in the SSL market, where we
foresee major growth for years to come."

Bridgelux has developed technology to fulfill an emerging market demand
for large area (~1mm square) power-LED chips that exhibit high light
output (~40 lumens) while consuming only 1 watt of power. Current
applications include retail displays, personal reading lights, flashlights/torches,
flat panel televisions and displays, emergency vehicle warning lights,
and architectural lighting. Dr. Walker added, “Bridgelux is
well on the way to becoming a de facto supplier for some of the highest
brightness applications.

Bridgelux chips are commonly found in your cell phone or camera flash
and in many of the types of lighting products in your home, office,
or neighborhood.”

About Bridgelux, Inc.

Founded in 2003 as eLite Optoelectronics, Inc., Bridgelux is a leading
supplier of energy saving power-LED chips to high-volume market segments.
The company developed and introduced the industry’s first high
volume ITO/InGaN (Indium Tin Oxide / Indium Gallium Nitride) power
light emitting diode (LED) chip and is currently delivering millions
of chips every month to customers worldwide. Customers use Bridgelux
power-LED chips to replace traditional bulb technologies with solid
state products that provide a powerful and energy-efficient source
of blue, green, or white light. Bridgelux chips are currently found
in mobile appliances, signage, automotive, and various general lighting
applications.

Contact Tom Jory, VP of Marketing, at 408-329-5304, website: www.Bridgelux.com

Sunnyvale, California, USA – August 14, 2006 – Bridgelux,
Inc. (formerly eLite Optoelectronics), a leading supplier of energy
saving, power-LED chips, today announced the addition of key personnel
to its management team.  Dr. Dave Bour, named an Agilent Fellow
in 2000, is joining as Chief Scientist at Bridgelux; Dr. Ghulam
Hasnain joins as a Senior Scientist; and Gloria Fan, previously
with UTStarcom, joins the organization as Chief Financial Officer.

Most recently serving with Applied Materials’ new business
development group, Dr. Bour was part of Agilent Laboratories in
Palo Alto, where his high level of scientific contributions earned
him the honor of Agilent Fellow and Fellow of the IEEE in 2000.
Dr. Bour received a B.S. degree in Physics from MIT in 1983, and
a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University
in 1987. He has published more than 200 articles and been granted
60 U.S. patents. Dr. Ghulam Hasnain, formerly VP of Advanced Technology
with LuxNet, brings over 20 years of experience in optoelectronics
and holds several patents.

Bour and Hasnain join an all-star R&D team which includes
Dr. Jeff Ramer, who significantly contributed to the development
of Emcore/Veeco’s E300 scale GaN MOCVD reactor, and Dr. Steve
Lester, who developed some of the world’s first high power
InGaN LED chips while with Agilent and Hewlett Packard. The R&D
team is headed by Dr. Heng Liu, Bridgelux founder and CTO.

Gloria Fan will oversee the company’s worldwide financial,
legal and HR structure and brings over 15 years of experience in
finance and operations for high technology companies. At UTStarcom,
initially as VP of Finance and most recently as VP of Global Business
Operations, Ms. Fan oversaw the company’s IPO. The company
was named one of Business Weeks’ 100 hot growth companies
in 2002.  Ms Fan has also held senior finance positions at
P-Com. Ms. Fan holds an M.S. from Purdue University and an MBA
from San Jose State University.

“Bridgelux is rapidly developing a track record of innovation
in a high-value, high-growth industry, which enables us to attract
top talent,” cites Bridgelux President and CEO Dr. Robert
Walker. “Ms. Fan brings us financial maturity that is critical
for a company serious about its global operations. Dr. Bour is
not only respected throughout the industry, but he has his own
track record of development in a competitive, patent-heavy market.
It’s one thing to invent, it’s something entirely different
to invent properly and provide customers with IP-protected solutions.”Bridgelux
is a founding member of IPSLA, the IP Secure Lighting Association,
which places a strong emphasis upon diligently respecting other
companies’ intellectual property and driving industry innovation
in combination with “IP secure” solutions.

About Bridgelux, Inc.

Founded in 2003 as eLite Optoelectronics, Inc., Bridgelux is a
leading supplier of energy saving power-LED chips to high-volume
market segments. The company developed and introduced the industry’s
first high volume ITO/InGaN (Indium Tin Oxide / Indium Gallium
Nitride) power light emitting diode (LED) chip and is currently
delivering millions of chips every month to customers worldwide.  Customers
use Bridgelux power-LED chips to replace traditional bulb technologies
with solid state products that provide a powerful and energy-efficient
source of blue, green, or white light. Bridgelux chips are currently
found in mobile appliances, signage, automotive, and various general
lighting applications. For more information visit http://www.Bridgelux.com

Contact at Bridgelux:

Gloria Fan +1 (408) 329-5300

Gloriafan@Bridgelux.com

Sunnyvale, California, USA – July 1, 2007 – Bridgelux, Inc., a leading supplier of energy saving LED chips to high-volume solid state lighting markets, today announced that LED industry veteran Mark Swoboda has joined Bridgelux as its new Chief Executive Officer. Swoboda brings with him 24 years of semiconductor sales, marketing and senior management experience, with the last 8 years focused in the LED market.

Dr. Robert C. Walker, who served as CEO since July of 2005, will continue on the Board, and as a member of the senior management team, leading strategic business development initiatives for the company. “Mark brings with him an incredible portfolio of development, market and branding experience that will be key to positioning the company for its next phase of growth,” said Dr. Walker. “With lighting-class LED products having reached volume production, Mark’s vision will enable Bridgelux to brand itself as a key supplier to companies pursuing some of the most exciting emerging markets.”

Mr. Swoboda most recently served as Executive Vice President of Philips Lumileds Lighting Company, where he led the sales, marketing, applications, and custom product development teams. During his tenure at Lumileds, the company pioneered the power LED product class and established a strong brand recognition strategy which proved key to developing high growth markets and applications in solid state lighting including general lighting, mobile phone camera flash, LED backlighting, and automotive forward lighting. Prior to joining Philips Lumileds, Mr. Swoboda spent 17 years with the Hewlett-Packard Semiconductor Products Group in various sales, marketing, and channel management positions.

“Bridgelux has assembled one of the strongest research and development teams in the industry, and has shown great results with its technology,” commented Swoboda. “It’s an exciting prospect to lead a team of this caliber into a market that is so ripe for explosive growth and at the same time is simply important for the world..” LED-based solid state lighting offers the promise of greatly reduced energy consumption along with enhancing the quality of life worldwide by delivering better light, often where no light was available before. “Bridgelux is a company that can make a difference and I’m proud to be part of that effort,” concluded Swoboda.

About Bridgelux, Inc. Founded in 2003, Bridgelux is a leading supplier of cost-effective, energy saving LED chips to high-volume market segments. The company developed and introduced the industry’s first high volume ITO/InGaN (Indium Tin Oxide / Indium Gallium Nitride) power light emitting diode (LED) chip and is currently delivering millions of chips every month to customers worldwide. Customers use Bridgelux LED chips to replace traditional bulb technologies with solid state products that provide a powerful and energy-efficient source of blue, green, or white light. Bridgelux chips are currently found in mobile appliances, signage, automotive, and various general lighting applications.

For more information visit http://www.Bridgelux.com Contact at Bridgelux:

Gloria Fan, +1 408.329.5300 (GloriaFan@Bridgelux.Com)

Sunnyvale, California, USA – August 6, 2007 – Bridgelux,
Inc., a leading supplier of energy-saving LED technology to high-volume
solid state lighting markets, today announced that it has completed
a $23M round of series C venture capital financing led by new investor
Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital. VantagePoint Venture Partners
also joined as a new investor, while DCM, El Dorado Ventures and
Harris & Harris Group participated with follow-on investments.
The funding will be used for product line and market expansion,
as well as intensified technology research and development at the
company’s headquarters in California’s Silicon Valley.

“With its current line of power LED chips, Bridgelux has demonstrated
its ability to bring innovative elements into the overall solid
state lighting solution set,” commented Bridgelux CEO, Mark
Swoboda. “This round of financing will really enable an acceleration
of the company into specifically targeted applications that result
in true partnerships rather than the more typical commodity-supplier
type relationships.” Bridgelux power LED chips have been used
by a substantial number of LED packagers and integrators as the
basis for their energy-savings light sources in backlighting, displays,
camera flashes and various niche lighting applications.

According to Greg Sullivan, managing director at lead investor Chrysalix
Energy Venture Capital, “Chrysalix invests in compelling technologies
and entrepreneurial management teams that are driving fundamental
technology changes into the global energy industry. Bridgelux fits
right in with that model as a company that can bring any number
of key elements into the solution set. We believe their approach
is one that will enable solid state lighting to more quickly reach
its full potential for energy savings and sustainability.”
Mr. Sullivan will be joining Bridgelux’ board of directors.

LED-based lighting technologies offer numerous advantages over current
fluorescent and incandescent solutions in a number of areas, including
reliability and light quality along with increases in both packaging
and energy efficiency. LEDs have quickly captured dominant shares
of the mobile appliance backlighting and camera flash markets, and
are rapidly appearing in small and mid-sized as well as large area
displays. While not yet widely available for consumer lighting needs,
the current generation of environment-friendly solid state lighting
technologies offers efficiencies that greatly exceed those of incandescent
lighting products, and have recently begun to rival many fluorescent
solutions in industrial and commercial applications.

Bridgelux CEO Swoboda concluded, “Any time the available resources,
technology portfolio and market potential align with an application-oriented
focus you can count on a whole new dynamic coming into play. Expect
to see Bridgelux demonstrating an accelerated pace of innovation
that yields new solutions that truly meet the market at its needs.”

About Bridgelux, Inc.

Founded in 2003, Bridgelux is a leading supplier of cost-effective,
energy saving LED chips to high-volume market segments. The company
developed and introduced the industry’s first high volume
ITO/InGaN (Indium Tin Oxide / Indium Gallium Nitride) power light
emitting diode (LED) chip and is currently delivering millions of
chips every month to customers worldwide. Customers use Bridgelux
LED chips to replace traditional bulb technologies with solid state
products that provide a powerful and energy-efficient source of
blue, green, or white light. Bridgelux chips are currently found
in mobile appliances, signage, automotive, and various general lighting
applications.

For more information visit http://www.Bridgelux.com

Contact at Bridgelux:

Gloria Fan, +1 408.329.5300 (GloriaFan@Bridgelux.Com)

Company Augments Marketing and Sales Teams to Drive Continued Worldwide Growth

SUNNYVALE, CALIF., April 23, 2008—Bridgelux,
Inc., a leading supplier of energy-saving LED technology for high-volume,
solid-state lighting markets, today announced the appointments of
Keith Scott as vice president of business development, and David
Barnby as vice president of sales and general manager for EMEA.
These latest strategic hires bolster Bridelux’s already impressive
management roster; and follows closely on the heels of the company’s
latest round of financing announcement, which totaled $40 million.

“Bridgelux is pleased to welcome both Keith and David as the
newest members to its executive management team—both of these
gentlemen will play a key role in taking the company to the next
stage of growth,” commented Mark Swoboda, CEO of Bridgelux.
“Specifically, Keith is a seasoned lighting industry veteran
with deep market experience and a unique understanding of the new
product opportunities afforded within our dynamic industry. We are
confident of his ability to help us drive alignment of our technology
roadmap with our new product strategy.”

Swoboda added, “As for David, we see great potential for Bridgelux
to expand its presence in the European market. We are confident
that his extensive experience in building and leading sales and
distribution networks in this region will prove instrumental in
forging closer ties throughout EMEA. Not only does his appointment
demonstrate our deep commitment to our EMEA customer base, but it
also shows our unwavering commitment to improve our support infrastructure
in this critical region.”

Scott, who will be based at Bridgelux’s Silicon Valley headquarters,
has more than 20 years of global experience in the commercial and
consumer lighting industry, having held various positions in product
and market development. Scott joins Bridgelux from Philips Lumileds
where he grew a multi-million-dollar, solid-state lighting business
while serving in various marketing and product development roles
during his six-year tenure. Prior to Philips Lumileds, he held multiple
marketing roles at OSRAM Sylvania, Inc., for 14 years where he launched
both individual and families of high-growth, innovative lighting
and lamp compound products. He received his bachelor’s degree
in math and physics from Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.,
and a master’s degree in business administration from Lesley
University in Cambridge, Mass.

Based out of Paris, Barnby brings more than 20 years experience
managing and growing business opportunities within Europe for high-technology
Silicon Valley companies. Prior to joining the company, he was the
EMEA vice president of sales and marketing for Pinnacle Systems
(the consumer division of Avid Technology) where he was responsible
for managing the consumer IT retail and distribution channels across
Europe, Central/Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Previously,
Barnby served as vice president, global sales and marketing in the
OEM Solutions Business Group within Thales. There, he implemented
the transition from a technology-led approach to a market-driven
one to better pursue the rapidly emerging opportunities across the
companies within the group. From 1985 until 2003, Barnby held multiple
general management, sales and marketing positions within Hewlett
Packard (HP), including EMEA and worldwide responsibility for the
company’s Optoelectronic and RF Semiconductor products (Components
Group).

About Bridgelux

Focused on bringing innovation to light—Bridgelux is fast-becoming
a leading provider of high power, cost-effective and energy efficient,
yet extremely reliable, light-emitting diode (LED) solutions. The
company’s proprietary epitaxy technology and innovative chip
designs have enabled the company to develop advanced solid-state
lighting products that offer superior quality, are lower in cost
and are environmentally friendly—all without compromising
optical, thermal or electrical performance. Beyond LED chips, the
company is actively seeking to extend its reach to deliver value-added,
application-specific solutions that will open up new markets in
solid-state illumination. Founded in 2002, Bridgelux is headquartered
in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information on the company, please
visit www.Bridgelux.com

Contacts:

Brian Fisher

Bridgelux

Phone: 408.990.7563

Email: brianfisher@Bridgelux.com

Marie Labrie

MCA

Phone: 650.968.8900, ext. 119

Email: mlabrie@mcapr.com

Company Improves Chip Performance Utilizing Traditional, Low-Risk Technology

SUNNYVALE, CALIF., June 4, 2008 — Bridgelux,
Inc., a leading supplier of energy-saving LED technology for high-volume,
solid-state lighting markets, today announced commercial availability
of its new NLX-5 high-power gallium nitride (GaN) LED chip. The
NLX-5, when embedded in a customer’s standard, cool white
LED package, provides a typical light output of 85–90 lumens
(@350 mA). As a result, the NLX-5 delivers the industry’s
leading cost-per-lumen performance for warm white, cool white and
RGB applications today.

In a LED package, the NLX-5 is ideal for general lighting applications,
such as LED street lights, architectural down lights, MR-16 lamps,
as well as mobile phone and digital camera flash applications. As
Bridgelux’s fifth-generation chip, the NLX-5 offers a 15-20
percent performance improvement over its predecessors. The company
continues to improve the performance of its LED chips based on a
low-cost manufacturing technology that has been abandoned by others
in the industry in favor of thin-film LED architectures, which ultimately
are more complex and costly.

“By merging our innovative chip designs with traditional sapphire-based
LED chip architectures, we’ve increased LED performance on
a very robust, high-yield technology platform,” said Bridgelux’s
Director of R&D, Steve Lester. “Many companies have believed
that high-light extraction was only possible with the removal of
the sapphire substrate. Our team has pushed the technology to achieve
higher performance without sapphire removal and its typically negative
impact upon yield and cost. Based on current R&D results, we
project that by later this year, we can provide an additional 10-15
percent improvement—with further anticipated performance improvements
continuing over the next 12 months, utilizing this same high-power
LED technology platform.”

The NLX-5 will provide Bridgelux customers with a low cost-per-lumen
solution to help speed market adoption of solid-state lighting applications
into the general lighting market. The Bridgelux chip technology
is not only lower in cost to manufacture, but is also easier and
more cost-effective for customers to integrate into lighting products,
either as single or multi-chip LED packages.

About Bridgelux

Focused on bringing innovation to light, Bridgelux is fast-becoming
a leading provider of high-power, cost-effective and energy-efficient,
yet extremely reliable, light-emitting diode (LED) solutions. The
company’s proprietary epitaxy technology and innovative chip
designs have enabled the company to develop advanced solid-state
lighting products that offer superior quality, are lower in cost
and are environmentally friendly—all without compromising
optical, thermal or electrical performance. Beyond LED chips, the
company is actively seeking to extend its reach to deliver value-added,
application-specific solutions that will open up new markets in
solid-state illumination. Founded in 2002, Bridgelux is headquartered
in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information about the company, please
visit www.bridgelux.com

Contacts:

Brian Fisher

Bridgelux

Phone: 408.990.7563

Email: brianfisher@Bridgelux.com

Marie Labrie

MCA

Phone: 650.968.8900, ext. 119

Email: mlabrie@mcapr.com

SUNNYVALE, CALIF., December 29, 2008 – Bridgelux, Inc., a leading supplier of energy-saving light-emitting diode (LED) technology, today announced that Bridgelux has reached agreement with Cree, Inc. and Boston University to settle the parties’ patent infringement litigation and to dismiss all claims and counterclaims in the suits. As part of the settlement, Cree granted Bridgelux a license to the Cree and Boston University patents at issue in the litigation, and Bridgelux agreed to pay a license fee and royalties. In addition, Bridgelux and Cree have entered into a supply agreement under which Cree will become a significant supplier to Bridgelux. Other terms of the settlement are confidential.

“This agreement creates a collaborative environment between Bridgelux and Cree, while affirming the commitment of both companies to the protection of intellectual property,” stated Mark Swoboda, Bridgelux, chief executive officer. “Cree will become an important technology and manufacturing partner for Bridgelux, supporting our efforts to enable the mass adoption of solid state lighting.”

About Bridgelux

Focused on bringing innovation to light, Bridgelux is a leading provider of high-power, cost-effective and energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) solutions. The company’s proprietary epitaxy technology, innovative chip designs and leading-edge LED packaging technology have enabled the company to develop advanced solid-state lighting (SSL) products that offer superior quality, are lower in cost and are environmentally friendly—all without compromising performance. In addition to LED chips, the company is actively seeking to extend its reach to deliver value-added, application-specific solutions that will open up new markets in solid-state lighting. Founded in 2002, Bridgelux is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information about the company, please visit www.bridgelux.com

Contacts:

Brian Fisher

Bridgelux

Phone: 408.990.7563

Email: brianfisher@Bridgelux.com

Company Continues to Strengthen its IP Portfolio

SUNNYVALE, CALIF., January 15, 200 — Bridgelux, Inc.,
a leading supplier of energy-saving light-emitting diode (LED) technology
for high-volume, solid-state lighting markets, today announced the award
of a U.S. patent for its surface mountable chip (SMC) LED design. This
SMC architecture fundamentally changes how LEDs will be deployed by eliminating
the need for traditional LED packaging. The innovative chip design offers
a high flux density LED with an ultra small footprint and thin profile,
with the ability to closely pack multiple chips together for increased
performance in space limited applications such as camera flash, LCD display
backlighting and general or specialty lighting applications. The design
of this chip also delivers a surface mountable “thin-film” architecture,
providing a flat surface for direct deposition of a phosphor layer on
the LED die.

Since the founding of Bridgelux, the Company has invested in the development
of its IP portfolio relating to MOCVD reactor design, leading-edge epi
technologies, advanced LED chip design, manufacturing processes and innovative
packaging techniques. To accomplish this, Bridgelux has assembled a world-class
team of seasoned technologists, expert in the LED and solid-state lighting
(SSL) industries.

“This new patent award demonstrates Bridgelux’s focus on driving innovation
in core technologies to improve performance and reduce the cost of our
lighting technologies,” noted Bridgelux’s director of R&D, Steve Lester.
“The company is aggressively adding to its intellectual property (IP)
portfolio. Bridgelux, currently, has over 75 patents filed in the U.S.
and over 130 patent applications filed worldwide. Bridgelux’s investments
in MOCVD and chip design enable the Company to continue to innovate and
deliver the right quality and quantity of light for specific SSL applications.”

The Bridgelux SMC LED design will enable manufacturers to bond the chip
directly onto the printed circuit board (PCB), eliminating the need for
an additional substrate or traditional LED package. This is the first
discrete, thin-film device with two bottom contacts and a flat surface
on which a phosphor can be applied. Direct deposition of phosphor film
at either the wafer or package level can achieve a quality of white color
consistency that no other commercially available LED die platform can
currently offer. Bridgelux intends to manufacture LED chips using its
SMC design at the Company’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in
Sunnyvale, Calif., or where appropriate, through one of its manufacturing
partners.

With this innovative chip design, non-value add components or manufacturing
processes can be eliminated, gaining the ability to enhance system integration
and reduce the cost of the total lighting solution. This chip will deliver
greater manufacturing flexibility for high flux applications requiring
multiple emitters, enable higher flux density for etandue limited applications,
and allow for individual chip addressability via the board to which multiple
SMCs are attached.

About Bridgelux

Focused on bringing innovation to light, Bridgelux is a leading provider
of high-power, cost-effective and energy-efficient light-emitting diode
(LED) solutions. The company’s proprietary epitaxy technology, innovative
chip designs and leading-edge LED packaging technology have enabled the
company to develop advanced solid-state lighting (SSL) products that offer
superior quality, are lower in cost and environmentally friendly—all without
compromising performance. In addition to LED chips, the company delivers
a range of SSL light sources enabling OEM customers to easily integrate
into a variety of lighting applications that will open up new markets
in solid-state lighting. Founded in 2002, Bridgelux is headquartered in
Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information about the company, please visit
www.bridgelux.com

Contacts:

Brian Fisher

Bridgelux

Phone: 408.990.7563

Email: brianfisher@Bridgelux.com

Marie Labrie

MCA

Phone: 650.968.8900, ext. 119

Email: mlabrie@mcapr.com