Infineon Technologies
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| Type | Public (FWB: IFX) |
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| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | April 1, 1999 |
| Headquarters | Neubiberg, Germany |
| Key people | Peter Bauer (CEO and Chairman of the executive board), Klaus Wucherer (Chairman of the supervisory board) |
| Products | Microcontrollers, computer memory, communication ICs |
| Revenue | €3.027 billion (2009)[1] |
| Operating income |  (€220 million) (2009)[1] |
| Profit | (€623 million) (2009)[1] |
| Employees | 26,460 (2009)[1] |
| Subsidiaries | Qimonda (77%) Comneon (100%) |
| Website | www.infineon.com |
Infineon Technologies AG (FWB: IFX) was founded in April 1, 1999 when the semiconductor operations of parent company, Siemens AG, were spun off to form a separate legal entity. As of September 30, 2007 Infineon has about 43,000 employees worldwide, 6000 of them involved in research and development. In the 2007 financial year, the company achieved sales of US$11.66 billion. In 2007 a 14.6% rise in projected calendar year revenues saw Infineon taking 10th place in iSuppli's global semiconductor sales ranking, thus gaining five places from 2006.
On May 1, 2006, Infineon's Memory Products division was carved out as a distinct company called Qimonda AG, which, at its height, employed about 13,500 people worldwide. Qimonda was listed on the New York Stock Exchange until 2009.[2]
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The markets of Infineon Technologies
Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg near Munich, Germany, offers semiconductor and system solutions for automotive, industrial and multimarket sectors, for applications in communication, as well as memory products through its subsidiary Qimonda. With a global presence, Infineon operates through its subsidiaries in the USA from Milpitas, California in the Asia-Pacific region from Singapore and in Japan from Tokyo.
Infineon has a number of facilities in Europe. Infineon's high power segment is in Warstein (Germany), Villach (Austria) and Cegléd (Hungary) and Italy. It also runs R&D centers in France, Singapore, Romania, Taiwan & Bengaluru (India) & fabrication units in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia & China.
Infineon is listed in the DAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
In 2010, a proxy contest broke out in advance of the impending shareholders' meeting over whether board member Klaus Wucherer would be allowed to step into the chairman's office upon the retirement of the then-current chairman, Max Dietrich Kley.
Product lines
Infineon's main product lines are ICs in the following areas:
- Communications (wired and wireless) (wired business spun off as an independent company known as Lantiq at the end of 2009)
- VoIP products
- ISDN products
- Mobile Phone Products
- Ethernet over VDSL 10Base-S products
- Automotive, Industrial & Multimarket
- Power ICs, Coolset, CoolMOS
- DC-DC power management ICs & AC-DC power management ICs
- Sense and Control products, TPMS (SensoNor)
- Smartcards
- Trusted Platform Modules
- TriCore, C166 and 8-Bit Micro-controllers
- Memory Products - Now with Qimonda
Infineon also has an HPS (High Power Segment). The front-end of this production is in Warstein (GER), the back-end is in Cegléd (Hungary). Thyristors, diodes and IGBTs are manufactured here.
Automotive
During the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijng in August, Chinese automobile manufacturer Chang'an Motors supplied a number of hybrid-drive cars as taxis for the athletes and spectators. The power electronics for the "mild hybrid" drive (HybridPACK 1) was supplied by Infineon.[3][4].
Buyouts
- Infineon announced the buy-out of the cellular division of LSI in August 2007 [5]. This division belonged to the erstwhile Agere Systems before it merged with LSI.
- In August 2007 it completed the acquisition of TI's DSL CPE business group. This group has been merged with the communications product group at Infineon.
Competitors
- TI
- Broadcom
- STMicroelectronics
- Marvell
- Freescale
- NXP
- Renesas
- International Rectifier
- Fairchild Semiconductor
- Semikron
- Dynex Semiconductor
Investors
Major institutional investors in Infineon are: Dodge and Cox International: 10.03%, Merrill Lynch International: 5.25%, Templeton Global Advisors Limited: 5.16%, Capital Group International: 4.14%.[6]
Price fixing controversy
In 2004–2005 an investigation was carried out into a worldwide DRAM price fixing conspiracy during 1999–2002 that damaged competition and raised PC prices. As a result, Samsung is to pay $300 million fine, Hynix was to pay $185 million in 2005, Infineon: $160 million in 2004. Micron Technology cooperated with prosecutors and no fine is expected.
Community support
AENEON
AENEON was introduced in 2005. AENEON is a DRAM memory family of Infineon and fits into standard PCs and notebooks.
AENEON targets whitebox (non-brand) PC and notebook manufacturers world wide, as well as the European retail segment and end users (web shop). AENEON DRAM memory focuses the "price-performance" segment.
Price advantages are obtained due to a limited product portfolio (only unbuffered and SO-DIMM), and due to outsourced module assembly. The DRAM components, however, are "Made by Infineon".
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Annual Report 2009". Infineon Technologies. http://www.infineon.com/dgdl?folderId=db3a304325305e6d01256ed6eee529be&fileId=db3a304325305e6d01257d6c114c0cd0. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
- ↑ NYSE Regulation, Inc. (January 23, 2009). "NYSE Suspends Qimonda AG, Moves to Remove from the List". NYSE. http://www.nyse.com/press/1232709551165.html. Retrieved March 16, 2009.
- ↑ "Chinese hybrid car to use Infineon electronics" in EE Times. Retrieved July 22, 2008
- ↑ HybridPACK1 - Infineon Technologies
- ↑ "Infineon acquiring LSI's mobile product business, Infineon
- ↑ "Shareholder Structure", Infineon 29 February 2008
External links
- Infineon website
- Infineon Stock OTC
- AENEON website
- "Infineon CEO Ziebart steps down; Bauer takes over", Reuters
- Infineon HybridPACK
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