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The company supplies LED dice, packaged LEDs, and high-brightness LEDs for integration into general lighting products. It manufactures billions of LEDs annually, and produces the world's brightest red, amber, blue, green and white LEDs.

History

Lumileds Lighting was formed in November 1999 as joint venture between Philips Lighting and Agilent Technologies. The company was assigned the responsibility of developing and marketing the world's brightest LEDs and enabling a new world of light. Through Philips' acquisition, Lumileds has become a business unit within Philips Lighting and is known as Philips Lumileds Lighting Company. Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics N.V.), usually known as Philips, (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. ... ...

Product Applications

Philips Lumileds' products are used by lighting designers, architects, manufacturers and others across the world. The principal lighting applications are:

Locations

• USA
• Netherlands
• Malaysia
• Singapore