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Cree, Inc. to Webcast Upcoming Presentations

Chuck Swoboda, chairman and chief executive officer, will provide a company overview at Cree's Fiscal Year 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on Tuesday, October 26^th, at 10:00 am EDT.

John Kurtzweil, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will provide a company overview at the following conferences:

• The Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference on Tuesday, November 30, at 1:00 p.m. EST.
• Baird's 2010 Clean Technology Conference on Wednesday, December 1, at 11:00 a.m. EST.

A webcast of each presentation will be available live and by replay. To access both the live and archived webcasts, as well as the slide presentation used during the conference, please go to www.cree.com and click on the Investor Relations link. The archived replays will be available 24 hours after the live presentation and will be accessible for two weeks.

About Cree, Inc.

Cree is leading the LED lighting revolution and setting the stage to obsolete the incandescent light bulb through the use of energy-efficient, environmentally friendly LED lighting. Cree is a market-leading innovator of lighting-class LEDs, LED lighting solutions, and semiconductor solutions for wireless and power applications.

Cree's product families include recessed LED down lights, lighting-class power LEDs, high-brightness LEDs, blue and green LED chips, power-switching devices and radio-frequency/wireless devices. Cree solutions are driving improvements in applications such as general illumination, backlighting, electronic signs and signals, variable-speed motors, and wireless systems.

For additional product and company information, please refer to www.cree.com.

Cree, Inc.
Raiford Garrabrant
Director, Investor Relations
919-313-5397
Fax: 919-313-5615
raiford_garrabrant@cree.com