World Market

	Broad-based economic stagnation in the USA.
	Rise in oil prices affects industrialized countries and quickly leads to a negative impact on private consumption.
	The boom in information technologies abruptly comes to an end, resulting in a sharp decline in demand for PCs and thus for memory products.

Semiconductor Industry

2.11.	In November, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) still reports a 45 percent growth rate in September 2000 for the global semiconductor branch in comparison to figures for September 1999.
	At the end of the year, market analysts announce growth in total semiconductor revenues of approximately 33 percent. The DRAM market alone rose 38 percent. In comparison: over the last forty years, the entire industry posted an average annual growth rate of 14 percent.

Infineon Technologies

2.10.	The acquisition of U.S. Local Area Network specialist Ardent Technologies on behalf of the Wireless Solutions Business Group is announced and completed in April 2001.
5.10/15.12	Infineon acquires a stake in two companies, sci-worx and Ramtron International Corporation, thus gaining access to extensive expertise in the fields of communications and memory technologies.
24.10.	Infineon's consumer electronics semiconductor business is sold to Micronas for 250 million Euro.
27.10.	Infineon is the first semiconductor company to receive Bluetooth certification for its BlueMoon system solution.
16.11.	Infineon opens a development center in Grenoble for fiber optics.
21.11.	Infineon ships 100-millionth GSM baseband chipset.
28.11.	IBM, Infineon and UMC roll out the first 0.13 micron logic chips. First customer shipments of these higher performing chips for network and computing applications commence in early 2002.
21.12	Infineon and Toshiba announce the joint development of FeRAM, a new memory technology.

* The dates provided generally refer to the day and month a public announcement has benn made and not to the actual time the particular event took place.