Over the past century, Lumileds has been fueled by an unwavering spirit of innovation that permeates our entire organization.

This relentless pursuit to raise the lighting bar has been the catalyst for an unmatched number of industry breakthroughs—all designed to satisfy the diverse lighting demands of luminaire manufacturers and their customers across automotive, specialty and illumination lighting markets throughout the world.

Whether it’s helping to establish new market segments like LED auto headlamps, LED backlighting for TVs and LED camera flashes for mobile phones, to pioneering revolutionary technology with Xenon lamps or perfecting best-in-class LED phosphors, we continue to break new ground and add to our more than 3,000 patents. These milestones have earned Lumileds a reputation for shattering the status quo and serve as the foundation for our next generation of industry-shaping lighting advancements.

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