Infineon is setting up a new Development Centre at its Dresden location, creating around 100 new jobs in the first phase and employing 250 people in the medium term.
One focus will be to develop new products and solutions for automotive and power electronics, as well as artificial intelligence. It is scheduled to be launched in the course of the 2018 calendar year.
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In Dresden, the Infineon Group already has one of its largest locations for developing wafer technologies and manufacturing processes, as well as a highly automated production plant. Some 2,200 employees carry out research into and develop technologies for microcontrollers, sensors and power semiconductors and make chips there, including for the automotive industry.
System integration is gaining in importance to enable complex interaction between semiconductors in more and more technically sophisticated cars. Modelling complex systems and developing integrated products will be one of the new Development Centre’s core tasks in addition to chip design.
“Microelectronics is responsible for around 90% of all innovations in the car,” said Infineon Technologies CEO, Reinhard Ploss. “Semiconductors are a prerequisite for electromobility and autonomous driving, trends that are major growth drivers for Infineon.”
“Algorithms, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things play a key part in the increasing networking of traffic systems. The new Development Centre will also address those issues intensively. We will create synergies as a result of the direct links with our development and production location in Dresden. That will help us develop products faster and put them on the market sooner.”
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By GlobalDataFor his part, Infineon division president automotive, Peter Schiefer, added: “Over the past years we’ve continuously increased our share of the growing market for automotive electronics.
“We’re one of the technology leaders in the field of electromobility and autonomous driving. We’ll expand our leading position further thanks to the new Development Centre in Dresden.”
Automotive is Infineon’s largest business area: Semiconductors for the automotive industry generate 42% of the Group’s revenue.
Infineon expects the trend towards electrically driven, connected and increasingly autonomous cars will help boost its growth significantly in the coming years.
