Infineon to launch R&D center for automotive electronics, AI
The cut set of automotive electronics and AI is growing rapidly. Almost at a weekly pace, vehicle manufacturers are announcing new AI-based features or new collaborations with the big names in AI research. So far, Infineon has largely played a spectator role in this game. Although the chipmaker is much more involved in the automotive processor business than it is perceived in the public, the focus of Infineon’s automotive business has been and still is on power electronics. Now that seems to be changing: AI and its applications in cars have become so important that no one can ignore them if they claim a leading role in the semiconductor business for the automotive industry. Reason enough for the chip manufacturer to turn intensively to AI.
In Dresden, the company is already running an R&D center dedicated to wafer technologies and semiconductor manufacturing processes. This center employs more than 2000 engineers, physicists and other semiconductor experts. They now will be joined by initially 100, and in the coming years up to 250 AI experts.
The move shows that AI, so far largely regarded as a question of algorithms and software, has reached the semiconductor level. Infineon’s existing R&D Center in Dresden has focused on optimizing chip production and wafer technology. The chipmaker’s move shows that in order to achieve optimal results with AI algorithms, it is not only the quality of the algorithms and the processor architectures at the register level that are important. Instead, the complex AI processes even influence the way chips are manufactured and how the product design for AI chips must be optimized with regard to semiconductor physics. According to an Infineon spokesperson, system integration is gaining in importance to enable the complex interaction between semiconductors in more and more technically sophisticated cars. Modeling complex systems and developing highly integrated products will be one of the new R&D center’s core tasks in addition to chip design.
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