Infineon and Wolfspeed extend silicon carbide wafer supply agreement

Infineon Technologies and Wolfspeed have announced the expansion and extension of their existing long-term 150mm silicon carbide wafer supply agreement, originally signed in February 2018. The extended partnership includes a multi-year capacity reservation agreement. It contributes to Infineon’s general supply chain stability and concerns the growing demand for silicon carbide semiconductor products for automotive, solar

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Infineon launches privacy-centric sleep quality service for OEMs

At OktoberTech Silicon Valley, Infineon Technologies has announced the launch of a contactless, privacy-centric sleep quality service that can be integrated into original equipment manufacturer (OEM) end devices such as bedside lamps, televisions, smart speakers and air purifiers. Using Infineon’s 60GHz Radar, programmable system on a chip (PSoC) and Wi-Fi technologies, the XENSIV Sleep Quality

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Spark Connected, Infineon Technologies unveil 500 W wireless charging module

Spark Connected, a global provider in developing advanced, safe and wireless power technology, and Infineon Technologies AG, have announced the market release of a 500 W wireless charging solution named Yeti. The ready-to-integrate wireless charging module is intended for the powering and charging of industrial machinery, autonomous mobile robots, automated guided vehicles, light electric vehicles,

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Infineon expands MOTIX MCU embedded power ICs portfolio with launch of TLE988x, TLE989x families

Infineon Technologies AG has introduced the TLE988x and TLE989x families extending the company’s portfolio of MOTIX MCU (microcontroller unit) embedded power ICs (integrated circuit). By integrating a gate driver, microcontroller, communication interface and power supply on a single chip, Infineon’s system-on-chip solutions achieve a minimal footprint.

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Infineon’s enhanced Integrity Guard 32 controller family sets new standards for security

Infineon Technologies AG has announced new TEGRION security controller family, a portfolio of 28 nm security controllers. It integrates the new Integrity Guard 32 security architecture and an advanced Arm v8-M instruction set for enhanced device performance. TEGRION security controllers offer ease of implementation, fast design-in and time-to-market, while supporting long product lifecycles. The broad

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Infineon extends its edge AI capabilities, choice-of-platforms

Infineon Technologies AG has announced that it is teaming with Edge Impulse to extend its Tiny Machine Learning-based AI development tools for the PSoC (programmable system on a chip) 63 Bluetooth LE microcontroller (MCU). Developers of AI-enabled IoT applications can now also build edge machine learning (ML) applications using the Edge Impulse Studio environment for

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Laird Connectivity brings Wi-Fi 6, 6E with Bluetooth 5.4 for IoT connectivity

Laird Connectivity announces upcoming Sona IF573 Wi-Fi 6/6E family of modules to their portfolio of Wi-Fi solutions. Powered by Infineon Technologies‘ AIROC CYW55573 chipset, Sona IF573 is an industrial IoT module that is rugged, small, globally certified, has connectivity, and is easy to integrate. 

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Advantest ships 10,000th V93000 SoC test system to Infineon Technologies

Advantest Corporation, a semiconductor test equipment supplier, announced that it has shipped its 10,000th V93000 system-on-chip (SoC) test system to longtime customer Infineon Technologies, an automotive semiconductor supplier. The milestone system is a V93000 configuration developed to address the diverse test needs of power, analog, microcontroller and sensor ICs used in automotive and microcontroller applications.

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Infineon AIROC CYW43022 Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth combo extends battery-life for IoT applications

Munich, Germany – Infineon Technologies AG has announced the new AIROC CYW43022 ultra-low power, dual-band Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth combo, extending its broad portfolio of existing AIROC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth products. The CYW43022 ultra-low power architecture delivers performance, with up to a 65% reduction in power usage during “deep sleep,” significantly extending battery life for

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New i-ToF imager enables small 3D camera systems with improved quantum efficiency at optimised cost

Munich, Germany. 24 February 2023 – Infineon Technologies AG, in collaboration with 3D time-of-flight partner pmdtechnologies, has introduced the IRS2976C Time of Flight (ToF) VGA sensor, a performance-enhancing evolution of the IRS2877C ToF VGA sensor and novel member of the REAL3 product family.

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NIST selects Ascon as international standard for lightweight cryptography

Munich, Germany – Infineon Technologies AG has announced that the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the Ascon algorithm developed by Christoph Dobraunig, Maria Eichlseder, Florian Mendel and Martin Schlaeffer as an international standard for lightweight cryptography (LWC). The cryptographic scheme was selected in a multi-stage and multi-year selection process, in

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Infineon’s AIROC CYW5459X portfolio to accelerate design cycle of connection for video, AI edge devices, IoT

Munich, Germany. 20 February 2023 – Infineon Technologies AG has announced it has added five new platform and module partners to support its proven high performance AIROC CYW5459x Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo portfolio. Additional partners include module partners Murata Electronics, AzureWave, Quectel Wireless and platform partners NVIDIA and Rockchip Electronics Co. With these new partners, end customers

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Are we now in an era of ‘intelligent connection’?

In this brand-new Quickfire Interview, editorial director, Jeremy Cowan chats to Vikram Gupta, Senior Vice President and General Manager for IoT Compute & Wireless at Infineon Technologies to find out about the main challenges IoT equipment makers deal with when looking for reliable connectivity, the effect COVID has had on the speed of converting analogue

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Saving us from demented smart things

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of IoT security regulations From smart cars to smart factories, the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming every aspect of modern life. Deployment of smart, connected devices delivers many benefits, says Steve Hanna, senior principal, Infineon Technologies, but also brings a very real threat of cyberattacks that can harm

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Infineon launches OPTIGA Connect 5G-ready eSIM turnkey solution for mobile consumer devices

Infineon Technologies AG has extended its embedded SIM (eSIM) portfolio with the new OPTIGA Connect eSIM solution for mobile consumer devices. This solution supports all GSMA standards from 3G to 5G and securely authenticates the device to the subscribed carrier network of choice.

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Infineon and JD sign strategic partnership to build smart IoT ecosystem

Infineon Technologies AG and JD group (JD) have signed a strategic partnership agreement aimed at creating an efficient and secured smart IoT (Internet of Things) ecosystem accelerating towards the vision of smart life.

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