Taiwanese firm Helios Crew Corporation, a subsidiary of US LED chip manufacturer SemiLEDs, has released what it says is a revolutionary new LED product, the S35.

The S35 is a packaged component LED, which integrates MEMS with semiconductor processing to produce a unique silicon packaging technology.   In conjunction with a high brightness SemiLEDs chip, this compact size, silicon sub-mount technology delivers incredible brightness along with reliability.

Helios says that in addition, the S35 silicon has a thermal conductance which is more than 8 times higher than aluminium oxide ceramic packages, and at a considerably lower cost than aluminium nitride ceramic.