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Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Business | Business Cree, Inc. (the Company) is a leading innovator of lighting-class light emitting diode (LED) products, lighting products and wide bandgap semiconductor products for power and radio-frequency (RF) applications. The Company's products are targeted for applications such as indoor and outdoor lighting, video displays, transportation, electronic signs and signals, power supplies, inverters and wireless systems. The Company's lighting products primarily consist of LED lighting systems and bulbs. The Company designs, manufactures and sells lighting fixtures and lamps for the commercial, industrial and consumer markets. The Company's LED products consist of LED components, LED chips and silicon carbide (SiC) materials. The Company's success in selling LED products depends upon its ability to offer innovative products and to enable its customers to develop and market LED-based products that successfully compete against other LED-based products and drive LED adoption against traditional lighting products. In addition, the Company develops, manufactures and sells power and RF devices based on wide bandgap semiconductor materials such as SiC and gallium nitride (GaN). The Company's power products are made from SiC and provide increased efficiency, faster switching speeds and reduced system size and weight over comparable silicon-based power devices. The Company's RF devices are made from GaN and provide improved efficiency, bandwidth and frequency of operation as compared to silicon or gallium arsenide (GaAs). As discussed more fully below in Note 19, “Subsequent Event,” on July 13, 2016, the Company executed a definitive agreement to sell its Power and RF Products segment and certain related portions of its SiC materials and gemstones business included within its LED Products segment (the Company refers to the business that it is selling, collectively, as the Wolfspeed business) to Infineon Technologies AG (Infineon). The majority of the Company's products are manufactured at its production facilities located in North Carolina, Wisconsin and China. The Company also uses contract manufacturers for certain products and aspects of product fabrication, assembly and packaging. The Company operates research and development facilities in North Carolina, California, Wisconsin, India, Italy and China (including Hong Kong). Cree, Inc. is a North Carolina corporation established in 1987 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. The Company's three reportable segments are:
• | Lighting Products
• | LED Products
• | Power and RF Products
For financial results by reportable segment, please refer to Note 14, “Reportable Segments.”

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