The global agreement enables lighting designers worldwide to quickly find, compare, select, and
order Cree’s latest products, including their innovative line of lighting-class XLamp® LEDs, high
brightness LEDs, LED modules, and power products. Cree LED components and solutions are driving
improvements worldwide in applications such as general lighting, electronic signs and signals. Cree
also is among the world’s leading manufacturers of silicon carbide-based diodes for power control and
management, providing increased efficiency in a variety of applications from solar inverters to industrial motor drivers to wireless technologies.
Cree gains access to Mouser’s highly-successful design engineering marketing programs and to
Mouser’s state-of-the-art fulfillment operations. The award-winning distributor offers 17 customer
support locations across multiple continents with 42 country websites. Mouser’s Product Knowledge
Centers and application guidance tools will give lighting designers easy access to view Cree’s product
advantages, technical specifications and data sheets.
“Cree is a progressive company known for top-of-the-line innovations in the LED industry and
we are pleased to align with them,” says Russell Rasor, Mouser’s vice-president of advanced
technology. “For design engineers and manufacturers, this means faster access to Cree’s LED lighting
solutions and SiC power products on a global basis.”
“With the distribution might of Mouser behind our products, our customers will not only have
worldwide access to our products, but will also have the search and comparison resources available
through Mouser’s award-winning online catalogs and websites,” says Mark Despotes, Cree vice
president of global channels. “The service and support Mouser offers as an authorized worldwide
distributor is invaluable to us and to our customers.”
The agreement reinforces Mouser’s commitment to support new solid-state lighting designs by
offering a comprehensive lineup of Cree LED components. In support of Cree’s products, Mouser will
provide engineers with the most innovative optical and mechanical products along with IC-based LED
drivers from key suppliers such as Texas Instruments, On Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics and
Maxim Integrated Products. This strategically positions Mouser, the design-fulfillment distributor, to
deliver advanced lighting technology components to enable a successful new design project.
With its broad product line and unsurpassed customer service, Mouser caters to design
engineers and buyers by delivering What’s Next in advanced technologies. Mouser Electronics’ website
is updated daily and searches more than 8 million products to locate over 2 million orderable part
numbers available for easy online purchase. Mouser.com also houses an industry-first interactive
catalog, data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, technical design
information, and engineering tools.
