Industrial automation, medical equipment, electronic components – plagiarism of capital equipment requires effective prevention, such as embedded security solutions from Infineon. According to the OECD, counterfeiting and piracy costs add up to around $638bn annually. The OPTIGA Trust E offers an easily implementable solution to protect manufacturers’ valuable IP from being attacked, analysed, copied and modified.

Infineon has launched a family of StrongIRFET MOSFETs for DC powered circuits including battery powered circuits, brushed and BDLC motor drives. The MOSFETs offer efficiency for end applications such as power and gardening tools, light EVs, UAVs and e-bikes that demand a high level of energy efficiency but are restricted in available space. This is made possible by the compact Medium Can DirectFET housing featuring a...

German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel visited Infineon Technologies Dresden on 14th July as part of her tour through the Dresden microelectronics cluster. She was accompanied by the Federal Minister of Education and Research Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka and the Prime Minister of Saxony Stanislaw Tillich. Together with Dr. Reinhard Ploss, CEO of Infineon Technologies, they discussed the political framework for a competitive development and production in ...

The industry’s first hermetic hybrid DC/DC converters rated at 185ºC in a 1” wide package has been introduced by IR HiRel, an Infineon Technologies company. The devices are designed specifically for oil and gas exploration downhole tools and can withstand the high temperature as well as the high shock environment typically found in these applications. As oil and gas are more and more difficult to find, exploration takes plac...

Contactless, multifunctional, fast and secure features are important requirements for next-gen travel documents. The main challenge lies in the combination of security and convenience: travelers should be able to pass through border checkpoints even more quickly and yet securely and citizens would like to access online services offered by public authorities with their smartphones.

The “Luftstrom” research project investigates how batteries in EVs can be charged more efficiently. Luftstrom (English: Airstream) will help accelerate the conversion to climate-friendly mobility. Twelve partners in the German automotive sector, its supply industry and the sciences are collaborating on this project for the next three years. The use of new power semiconductors is expected to reduce losses during charging and, ultimatel...

HV-ModAL, a German research project to improve the power of EV drive trains, aims to create an electric drive train modular system toolbox which is suitable for a wide range of EVs, within three years. Thus, the ten partners from the whole automotive value chain and the sciences intend to further expand the global market position of the German automotive industry in the field of EVs – pure electric, PHEVs and small transport vehic...

Infineon Technologies has announced the introduction of a family of rugged, reliable 700V High-Voltage ICs (HVICs) optimised for solar, power supply, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), welding and industrial drive applications. The 700V offering enables designers of high-voltage power stages to simplify their design while making them more robust.

A 6.5kV power module that features IGBT and freewheeling diode functionality integrated into a single chip has been introduced by Infineon Technologies. This RCDC chip is suitable for modern high-speed trains and high-performance locomotives as well as for future HVDC electric power transmission systems and medium voltage drives used for example in oil, gas and mining industries.

The European Commission is launching three new research projects aimed at making electromobility cheaper, more efficient and more reliable in order to facilitate more environmentally-friendly vehicles on Europe's roads. Europe will be the site for the continued development and production of EVs under these projects, which will run until 2018 and are headed by Infineon Technologies. 

Setting a new standard in the Power MOSFET market, Infineon Technologies has extended its medium voltage MOSFET portfolio with OptiMOS 300V. The device helps system designers to increase power density and reduce cost with the highest level of reliability. Ultimately, for the end user, this translates into energy cost savings.

Infineon Technologies has announced that it is working with Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP) to develop a sensing solution. Potential applications include wearables, IoT and automotive applications.

An optically triggered thyristor that can improve the reliability, lower the system cost and simplify the design of ultra-high-power applications has been introduced by Infineon Technologies. The 6” thyristor incorporates reliable optical triggering, eliminating the requirement for an external electrical trigger circuit. In addition, on-board safety features such as overvoltage protection, dv/dt protection and protection against forward vol...

  Infineon Technologies has launched a new family of CoolMOS C7 series superjunction MOSFETs. The 600V series offers a 50% reduction in turn-off losses compared to the CoolMOS CP, offering a GaN-like level of performance in PFC, TTF and other hard-switching topologies.

Infineon Technologies is the first company in the world to manufacture automotive power MOSFETs on 300mm thin wafers. The OptiMOS 5 family of power semiconductors, optimised for CO2 reduction applications, is the first group of products to be released on the thin-wafer technology.

At this year's PCIM 2015 trade show Infineon Technologies will launch a new Intelligent Power Module (IPM). The MIPAQ Pro provides an all-in-one solution for a wide spectrum of scalable and compact inverter designs to be implemented in wind, solar and industrial drives applications. The MIPAQ Pro is a fully qualified and tested IPM, integrating IGBTs, gate drivers, the heat sink, sensors, digital control electronics as well as digital bus communi...

At PCIM 2015, Infineon Technologies will present the latest generation of its PrimePACK power modules, which benefit from the new generation of Infineon’s IGBTs. The combination of the IGBT5 and the innovative .XT interconnection technology is an important milestone in IGBT chip and interconnection technologies.

Featuring highly accurate 3D sensing with extremely low power consumption, the TLV493D-A1B6 3D magnetic sensor has been introduced by Infineon Technologies. Magnetic field detection in x, y and z axes allows the sensor to reliably measure 3D linear and rotation movements, while the implemented digital I²C interface enables fast and bidirectional communication between sensor and MCU.

PCIM 2015 will pay host, for the first time in Europe, to the combined power portfolio of Infineon and International Rectifier, in hall 9, booth 412, from 19th to 21st May 2015. The result of Infineon's strategic approach, outlined as “from product thinking to system understanding,” the company's range of products includes MOSFETs, IGBTs, GaN devices and speciality materials.

It has been announced that Infineon Technologies has purchased all outstanding shares of LS Power Semitech. The strategic acquisition increases Infineon’s global footprint in the growing market segment of Intelligent Power Modules (IPM) which enable higher energy efficiency in consumer appliances such as refrigerators, freezers, washing machines, dryers and air conditioners.