ITRI is being honored with the R&D 100 Award in Chicago on October 16 alongside with organizations such as Intel, Dupont, Argonne National Laboratory and NASA. ITRI's on-chip AC LED lighting technology was selected by the R&D Magazine as one of the 2008 innovation of the year. On-chip AC LED for lighting utilizes an innovative AC-DC converter design and hot swap heat dissipation packaging to create next generation lighting technology has now been judged as one of the top 100 innovations of this year.