Infineon Technologies AG News

Infineon Technologies AG and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. are extending their development and production partnership to a 65nm embedded flash process technology targeting next-generation automotive , chip card and security applications.

It's always heartening to see good men prevail, and the complete exoneration of former Infineon CEO Ulrich Schumacher on charges of bribery, breach of trust and fraud is an excellent result of the recent Munich court case.

Press release; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES [Thursday 5 November 2009] Infineon Technologies and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on November 5 announced that their development and production partnership has been extended to a 65nm embedded flash process technology.

Infineon Technologies Sdn Bhd and Multimedia University have agreed to collaborate on joint development projects of mutual interest to both parties in the next three years.

"This time last year WSTS forecast a $240bn market in 2001, its latest forecast is $140bn," bemoans Ulrich Schumacher CEO of Infineon Technologies.

The trial against former Infineon CEO Ulrich Schumacher for alleged corruption has been closed after the prosecutor has dropped his charges.

Three of Europe's leading chip makers, Infineon Technologies AG, ST Microelectronics and NXP Semiconductors Germany GmbH, as well as its largest supplier of chip cards, Giesecke & Devrient GmbH and Gemalto, have joined forces with several other companies and research organizations to develop a high-security chip card platform.

October 20, 2009 - Aware, Inc. today announced it has agreed to sell assets associated with its Home Networking and DSL product lines for $6.75 million to Lantiq Broadband Holdco, Inc.

With Infineon's Dresden fab reaching full utilization and in the company's other production sites the utilization climbing, the question arises as to the company's manufacturing perspectives.

The electrification of the automotive power train currently bestows chip makers such as Infineon a high demand for its automotive related business.

Europe's largest research project to advance the development of electric vehicles has been launched under the leadership of Infineon Technologies AG .

In 2008, Infineon's market share was 25.5 percent of the overall chip card IC market, totaling about US $2.4 billion according to Frost & Sullivan.

AtmelAA Corporation , a leader in touch technology and microcontroller-based solutions, today announced the appointment of Joerg Strughold as Vice President of European Sales.

After the hefty dip for the entire industry earlier this year, chip maker Infineon has returned to growth mode.

A slow but steady recovery is what the European semiconductor industry expects according to recent market statistics.

Volterra Semiconductor Corporation , a leading provider of high-performance analog and mixed-signal power management semiconductors, today announced that at a September 30, 2009 hearing, the U.S. District Court granted Volterra's motion for a preliminary injunction against Infineon Technologies AG, Infineon Technologies North America Corporation ...

Continuing with our detailed analysis of European players in wireless semiconductor space, let's take a look at some recent developments at Infineon Technologies AG.

European stocks rose for a third day, extending the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Indexa s biggest quarterly rally this decade.

Mumbai, Sep 29 : Infineon Technologies AG , a leading German semiconductor manufacturer, today announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract with Larsen and Toubro Infotech Limited to operate, maintain and develop SAP solutions within Infineon's enterprise landscape and provide these services out of Germany, Singapore and India.

Infineon Technologies AG has released the 600V CoolMOS C6 superjunction MOSFETs that are easy to design-in and are suited for various energy conversion applications, including power factor correction and pulse width modulation stages.