HP Lowers Its LED Price Point With New High-Brightness 5mm AlInGaP Lamp Series; Red and Amber Lamps Priced at 14 Cents in Less-than-1,000 Piece Quantities.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 1999--

Hewlett-Packard Company today announced a series of extremely cost-competitive AlInGaP (aluminum indium gallium arsenide) red and amber 5mm LED lamps that provide up to 6 candela intensity (at 8-degree viewing angle), costing only $0.14 in one to 9,999-piece quantities. This compares with HP's previously lowest-cost AlInGaP lamps, which were priced at $0.29 for the same quantities. Pricing in quantities from 50,000 to 499,999 is $0.12.

These lamps are designed specifically for applications requiring a high on-axis light intensity and operate over a wide range of drive-current levels. They represent an economical and reliable choice for a huge variety of commercial and consumer applications ranging from bicycle warning lamps to automotive and other decorative lighting, illuminated signs, moving message panels and road-construction barrier lights.

These HP lamps are cost competitive and are specified for operation in -40 degree C to +100 degree C temperature range. They offer higher reliability than most conventional TS AlGaAs (transparent substrate aluminum gallium arsenide) lamps often used in cost-constrained applications.

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                     Viewing    Luminous                    Angle      Intensity                    (degrees)  (mcd) @ 20 mA              Dominant Part No.           Typ.       Min.      Typ.   Color    Wavelength  HLMP-C008-U0000      8         2900    6000     Red         626 HLMP-C208-S0000      8         2600    3000    Amber        590 HLMP-C608-R0000      8         1000    2000     Red         635 HLMP-C025-P0000     25          500    1000     Red         626 HLMP-C225-O0000     25          450     800    Amber        590 HLMP-C625-P0000     25          500     700     Red         635        -- $0.14 in 1 to 9,999-piece quantities;      -- $0.13 in 10,000 to 49,999-piece quantities; and      -- $0.12 in 50,000 to 499,999-piece quantities. 

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The products are available now through authorized HP distributors. Sample quantities can be obtained via the HP Semiconductor Products Group Small Quantity Ordering Center at http://www.hp.com/HP-COMP/sample/index.html.

Data sheets and other information on these products are available on the Web at: http://www.hp.com/go/led.

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