Infineon Linz wins Upper Austrian Innovation Award 2021

Linz, September 07, 2021 - The Infineon team in Linz emerged as the winner in the category for large companies. The Upper Austrian State Prize for Innovation recognizes innovative ideas, projects and companies.

The 12-member jury had a difficult time choosing among the first-class entries. Ultimately Infineon Technologies Linz prevailed in the category for large companies with the project "Radar-based Driving Assistance Systems for All Vehicle Classes". In the small and medium-sized enterprises category, the winner was cortEXplore GmbH. The research institutions category was won by JKU Linz. The jury prize for "Radical Innovation" went to Fametec Gmbh.

The Upper Austrian Innovation Award 2021 is a cooperation of the Province of Upper Austria and the Upper Austrian business location agency Business Upper Austria in collaboration with WKO Upper Austria - sparte.industrie, Sparkasse OÖ, ORF Upper Austria and "OÖ-Krone".

Radar-based driving assistance systems for all vehicle classes

Radar technology is essential for vehicle safety and helps to actively prevent accidents by detecting the traffic situation regardless of weather and light conditions. However, until now this was an expensive additional feature. With the innovations of the latest radar generation from Infineon Linz, all required high-frequency components have been combined in one chip.

This high level of integration enables particularly compact, but also 70% more cost-effective and twice as powerful radar-based assistance systems. With the RXS81xx, all application areas of 77-79 GHz radars can be served equally: In addition to the common "front radar" with a long range of over 300 m, compact "corner radars" can be set up at the four corners of the vehicle for improved side visibility, as can a rear-looking radar.

By connecting several RXS81xx together to form a network, high-resolution radar with better discrimination of objects - such as a person between two vehicles - is also possible. The RXS81xx allows all these applications to be implemented with just one radar chip in different configurations, so that up to ten radar chips can be installed per vehicle.

More pictures and impressions of the award ceremony as well as videos at:  Upper Austria location 

About Infineon in Linz

The Development Center in Linz was founded in 1999 as a spin-off company of Johannes-Kepler University. Infineon Austria became the majority shareholder in the year 2000 and has been the sole owner of Infineon Technologies Linz GmbH & Co KG (former DICE) since September 2019. Since its foundation, the company in Linz with its 180 employees from 28 nations has become the global center of competence in high-frequency technologies with the Infineon Group with worldwide leading expertise in radar chips for driver assistance systems.

Another development focus of the Linz-based team are high-frequency com-ponents for mobile telephony and navigation applications, including antenna switches and receiver amplifiers, that ensure that terminal devices can achieve very high data rates even under unfavorable conditions. These products are installed in virtually every smartphone, tablet and navigation system.

Infineon Technologies Austria AG is a group subsidiary of Infineon Technologies AG, a world-leading provider of semiconductor solutions that make life easier, safer and greener. Microelectronics from Infineon reduce the energy consumption of consumer electronics, domestic appliances and industrial facilities. They make a major contribution to the convenience, security and sustainability of vehicles, and enable secure transactions in the Internet of Things.

Infineon Austria pools competencies for research and development, production as well as global business responsibility. The head office is in Villach, with further branches in Graz, Klagenfurt, Linz and Vienna. With 4,517 employees from around 70 countries (including 1,960 in research and development), in the financial year 2020 (ending in September) the company achieved a turnover of € 3.1 billion. With a research expenditure of 498 million euros, Infineon Austria is one of the strongest research companies in Austria.