Sometimes major progress happens silently in the background – optimizing, securing and enhancing the way we live.
(AI-powered) microcontrollers are the unseen force behind smart homes reducing energy consumption, behind your vehicle moving, behind medical devices offering life-saving insights and behind factories predicting maintenance before crucial components breakdown. Subtlety shaping a world where technology is not just more powerful but also more sustainable and accessible – for everyone. Everywhere.
This invisible intelligence is brought to life by teams at Infineon like Sam Geha’s: They work on implementing smart technology at scale. To achieve this, devices need to be user-friendly, work wherever and whenever you need them – and shouldn’t cost a fortune. Innovation in microcontroller units (MCU) is key to this.
Imagine your thermostat regulating the temperature of your home: it saves energy when you’re out, but by the time you come back home, it’s heated or cooled to just how you like it.
Every second there are new smart devices connected to the internet. At Infineon, we’re giving a home to digitalization and decarbonization – yours.
Making your home smart, efficient, and convenient
The technologies we put in our most private of places need to be tailored to us, secured, and, of course, deliver what they promise. For smart home devices, MCUs act as the “brains” processing data on site as they go to deliver a user experience that is all about you. In fact, without these miniscule components nothing “smart” would work. Through intelligent and intuitive usability, they facilitate seamless human-machine interaction, ensuring efficiency, top performance and secured data storage.
Since most people don’t stick to just one brand, the real magic happens if your oven, stereo, coffee maker, and security camera all speak the same language. That’s what keeps your smart home devices playing together nicely – the way a happy household should be.
The fastest track to smarter devices is on the edge
Most modern devices rely on cloud connectivity for data processing, causing latency – delays that can be critical in fast-moving scenarios like autonomous driving, where immediate decisions are essential. Edge AI eliminates this by analyzing data directly on-device, enabling predictive adjustments and real-time response without cloud dependence. From smart vehicles and homes to health and AR devices, Edge AI ensures faster, more secure localized responses. By processing data locally on MCUs, Edge AI delivers additional benefits: it saves energy by reducing expensive cloud data transmissions and through optimized low-power operation on the device itself.
Not everything needs to be connected to the cloud to be smart. With Edge AI, we process data right on the device. That enables intelligence everywhere – without internet.
Making your car clean, safe, and smart
Infineon shapes the future of mobility with microelectronics. There are numerous applications where processing speed is crucial. A smart assistant instantly recognizes your voice, while an autonomous vehicle can instantaneously detect and differentiate between a car and a pedestrian – ensuring both convenience and safety.
MCUs accompany you on board on every ride – under the hood, in the dashboard and all sorts of other places on board you’d never think. Infineon MCUs power EVs with real-time systems for safety-critical tasks and edge AI to reduce latency for instant responses like adaptive cruise control and emergency braking. So, sit back, relax and enjoy the precision, comfort and power of modern driving.
Microcontrollers are needed in nearly every electronic system in a car – on average there are over 50 MCUs in every car. They are key components in the automotive industry, controlling and monitoring a wide variety of systems in the automobile such as vehicle motion control, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and chassis. Special high-performance microcontrollers combine power and performance enhancements with the latest trends in virtualization, Artificial Intelligence, functional safety, cybersecurity, and networking functions paving the way for new Electric/Electronical (E/E) architectures.
If you’re driving a car, the last thing you want your sensors to do is call the cloud and say, hey, I’m close to that car, what should I do. You need them to react immediately and instantly.
AURIX™ TC4x for a new era of connected and autonomous vehicles
AURIX™ microcontrollers are designed for a wide variety of automotive applications, including control of combustion engines, electrical & hybrid vehicles, transmission control units, chassis domains, braking systems, electric power steering systems, airbags, connectivity, and advanced driver assistance systems to support the
trend toward autonomous, clean, and connected cars.
Our AURIX™ TC4x is a family of microcontrollers that provide leading real-time automotive safety and security performance, enabling a new era of connected and autonomous vehicles with reliable, safe, and secure systems for real-time critical applications.
PSOC™ Edge for a new generation of smart devices
PSOC™ Edge delivers low-power smart devices with built-in machine learning acceleration. In combination with our AI-software, these MCUs enable seamless human-machine interactions, contextual awareness and advanced applications like audio, visuals and voice recognition. PSOC™ Edge operates on ultra-efficient 22-nm embedded-RRAM technology, ensuring “always-on” responsiveness with minimal energy use.
Embedded Edge Protect technologies safeguard privacy and security, making data processing and communication reliable. We are proud to be the first manufacturer to achieve PSA Level 4 security, a security framework for embedded security with independent security evaluations, complying to the highest security standards and common regulations.
With scalable designs and easy integration using ModusToolbox™ and DEEPCRAFT™ AI/ML tools, developers can create smarter, energy-efficient devices that redefine the connected home Ideal for smart home devices such as voice assistants and security systems.
Paving the way for digitalization and decarbonization matters to me. One part of the solution are our microcontrollers.
