Infineon | X-ON
Infineon Technologies AG is a German semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1999, when the semiconductor operations of the former parent company Siemens AG were spun off. Infineon has about 50,280 employees and is one of the ten largest semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. In fiscal year 2021, the company achieved sales of €11.06 billion. Infineon bought Cypress Semiconductor in April 2020.
Infineon markets semiconductors and systems for automotive, industrial, and multimarket sectors, as well as chip card and security products. Infineon has subsidiaries in the US in Milpitas, California, and in the Asia-Pacific region, in Singapore and Tokyo, Japan.
Infineon has a number of facilities in Europe, one in Dresden. Infineon's high power segment is in Warstein, Germany; Villach and Graz in Austria; Cegléd in Hungary; and Italy. It also runs R&D centers in France, Singapore, Romania, Taiwan, UK, Ukraine and India, as well as fabrication units in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and China. There's also a Shared Service Center in Maia, Portugal.
After several restructurings, Infineon today comprises four business areas:
Automotive (ATV)
Industrial Power Control (IPC)
Power & Sensor Systems (PSS)
Connected Secure Systems (CSS)
Over the course of years, Infineon has diversified and acquired a lot of big manufacturing companies of electronic components, such as:
• International Rectifier(IR) in 2014 for $3 billion
• Cypress Semiconductors for $9.4 billion in 2020 among others.