Headquarter Facilities:
Worldwide Headquarters:
Munich, Germany
North America Headquarters: Milpitas, California
Fiscal 2008 sales (ending September 2008):
Global: €4.321 billion (US$6.084 billion*) excluding Qimonda (Memory Products)
North America: €503 million (US$708 million) excluding Qimonda (Memory Products)
Employees: (as of September 2008)
Approximately 813 in North America (excluding Qimonda)
Core Areas:
Infineon offers semiconductor and system solutions addressing three central
challenges to modern society - energy efficiency, communications and security.
Market Position:
Infineon was the sixth largest semiconductor company worldwide in the first nine months of the 2008 calendar year (according to iSuppli).
U.S. Sites:
- Business operations in Milpitas, CA and Livonia, MI
- R&D centers in Hopewell Junction, NY, Allentown, PA and Morgan Hill, CA
- Sales offices throughout North America
Recent Transactions:
During the 2008 fiscal year, we completed the following two business acquisitions in North America:
- In October 2007 we acquired the mobility products business of LSI Corporation to further strengthen our activities in the field of communications. The acquired business develops semiconductors and software for mobile phone platform solutions.
- In April 2008 we acquired Primarion, Inc., Torrance, California (“Primarion”) in order to further strengthen our activities in the field of power management applications. Primarion is among the 3 leaders in designing, manufacturing and marketing digital power ICs for computing, graphics and communication applications.
U.S. Cooperations:
- IBM, Samsung and Chartered – Joint research and development alliance on foundry-oriented CMOS technologies for 65 nm and 45 nm
Areas of Competence:
We are organized in five operating segments: Automotive, Industrial & Multimarket, Chip Card & Security, Wireless Solutions and Wireline Communications:
- The Automotive segment designs, develops, manufactures and markets semiconductors for use in automotive applications. Together with its product portfolio, Infineon offers corresponding system know-how and support to its customers.
- The Industrial & Multimarket segment designs, develops, manufactures and markets semiconductors and complete system solutions primarily for use in industrial applications and in applications with customer-specific product requirements.
- The Chip Card & Security segment designs, develops, manufactures and markets semiconductors and complete system solutions primarily for use in chip card and security applications.
- The Wireless Solutions segment designs, develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of ICs, other semiconductors and complete system solutions for wireless communication applications.
- The Wireline Communications segment designs, develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of ICs, other semiconductors and complete system solutions focused on wireline access applications.
Ticker Symbol:
IFX – listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the DAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange; member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index (SOX)
*According to US GAAP, conversion from Euros to US Dollars solely for the convenience of the reader.