Memories are the backbone of modern electronics, enabling an incredible breadth of applications across industry verticals. Found in everything from smart home sensors and computers to industrial machinery and satellites, memories bring speed, reliability, and resilience to modern systems. From enabling real-time decision-making to safeguarding critical information, memory solutions make it possible to build smarter, faster, and more reliable technologies.

The versatility of Infineon’s memories – found in:

  • Smart Homes: “for lightning-fast responsiveness, rich GUI and seamless firmware updates.”
  • Industrial Drives: “for reliable and safe operation, even in adverse operating environments.”
  • Humanoids: “for autonomous perception, high-speed communication and precise motion.”
  • LEO satellites: “for data reliability in the face of temperature extremes and cosmic radiation.”

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energy storage
energy storage
energy storage

a) Energy Storage Systems:

The global energy transition is accelerating with power generated from renewable sources of energy expected to replace that from conventional sources. Energy Storage Systems (ESS) and grid-forming inverters are essential to maintain frequency stability, prevent outages, and integrate renewables.

ESS are structured into a power conversion system (PCS) that handles AC/DC and DC/AC conversion and a battery management system (BMS) for cell charging, balancing and health monitoring. Serial interface NOR Flash memories reliably store the bootloader for system OS and facilitate firmware over-the-air (OTA) updates in both PCS and BMS systems. Data-logging memories like serial F-RAMs are used for logging current, voltage and other environmental variables continuously to enable diagnostics and predictive maintenance. F-RAMs in PCS are used to capture time-stamped data instantly on unexpected power loss to facilitate fault analysis and allow safe operation on power restoration. This supports residences, commercial and infrastructure establishments become greener, more efficient and reliable.

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b) Industrial drives:

The electric motor and industrial drive combination controls and enables a wide range of processes and functions in fields as diverse as power generation, industry, transport and robotics. As drives become smarter – enabling predictive maintenance, AI and edge analytics, manufacturers try to ensure enhanced reliability and security measures to ensure seamless operation and protect against cyber-attacks.

Industrial drives feature a non-volatile RAM – such as an F-RAM or nvSRAM, - to capture data within a few milliseconds during sudden power loss, preserving critical operational parameters. These memories enable the drive to not only protect valuable data but also quickly recover to a known, predictable state, thus minimizing downtime in demanding industrial environments.

With the European Union’s Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA) regulation entering into force, industrial drive manufacturers must also ensure that systems comply with the Act’s requirements on security and vulnerability management. A secure NOR Flash memory that can add a hardware root-of-trust can play a pivotal role in safeguarding firmware and sensitive data against unauthorized access, tampering and replay attacks. By integrating Infineon’s SEMPER™ Secure NOR Flash, industrial drives can meet CRA requirements while maintaining uninterrupted operation in increasingly interconnected environments.

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Industrial drives
Industrial drives
Industrial drives
AI servers
AI servers
AI servers

c) AI servers:

Data centre capital expenditure, driven by investments in artificial intelligence, continues to surge with McKinsey & Co. forecasting outlays of over $7 trillion to keep pace with the demand for compute. To handle the high-performance needs of AI/ML workloads, these data centres have re-architected around GPUs/accelerators, high-speed networking and modular, scalable designs.

AI data centre components, including compute boards, baseboard management control (BMC), network interface cards (NICs), and other acceleration cards require SPI NOR Flash memories for safe boot and system initialization. According to a report published in Taiwan’s Commercial Times, the NOR Flash content in a Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack exceeds $600 and may reach $900 in two years.  Secure NOR Flash, like Infineon’s SEMPER™ Secure NOR Flash are also employed by hyper scalars for remote attestation to guarantee the origin and contents of the Flash device and provide overall platform firmware resiliency (PFR) in accordance with NIST 800-193 requirements.

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d) Humanoid robots:

The humanoid robots’ market – once confined to the realms of science fiction – is gaining momentum as these life-like machines steadily find acceptance in real-world scenarios like factory automation, logistics in warehouses as well as in the retail and service sectors. Much like autonomous driving cars, these robots rely on cutting-edge sensors and semiconductors, powered by AI.

 

Underpinning the architecture of the humanoid robot is a robust and sophisticated memory ecosystem, tailored to meet its reliability and performance requirements. From the main compute system powered by AI accelerator chipsets to the Ethernet connectivity backbone of the robot, NOR Flash memories play a pivotal role in aiding the system boot and supporting crucial initialization processes. Other sub-systems like motor control and battery management systems (BMS) rely heavily on continuous and reliable data-logging for decision making. In fact, a single humanoid robot often utilizes several tens of serial F-RAM memories to enable real-time responsiveness. Infineon’s advanced memory solutions drive the ability of humanoid robots to perform tasks with precision and optimized performance.

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Humanoid robots
Humanoid robots
Humanoid robots