Infineon and NavSemi have announced the availability of Sun Flower solar charge controller based on Infineon’s low-power, 8-bit XC800 MCU, which supports multiple serial interfaces including I2C, UART, SPI and SSP. The Energy Maximizer architecture provides up to 97 percent system efficient power extraction in solar photovoltaic PV applications and 25 percent improvement in battery charge

Infineon’s SLE 78 family of security controllers received security certification for use in electronic ID documents and chip card applications. Governments and public authorities all over the world use security controllers in ID documents that conform to the international standard Common Criteria EAL5+ (high) security requirements.

Strategy Analytics reports that Infineon has become the world’s foremost supplier of chips for automotive electronics with a 9.0 percent share of the global market with sales totaling $US1.31 billion in 2009. Infineon strengthened its market position even though it was a crisis year for the automobile industry, with the overall market for automotive chips contracting by 21 percent to $US14.4 billion in 2009 (compared to $US18.3 billion in 2008)

Infineon and Nokia have announced a cooperation to develop advanced radio frequency (RF) transceiver solutions to ensure compatibility and interworking of Nokia’s advanced licensable baseband modem technologies and Infineon’s leading RF solutions.

Infineon and TSMC are extending their development and production partnership to a 65 nm eFlash process technology targeting next generation automotive, chip card and security applications. Based on the agreement, they will jointly develop 65nm process technologies for eFlash microcontrollers (MCUs) that fulfill the stringent quality requirements of the automotive industry, as well as the demanding security requirements of the chip card and security markets.

The Chinese government is using Infineon security microcontrollers for its new electronic passports. The Chinese electronic passport project is volume-wise one of the world’s two biggest electronic passport projects, in the first full year of the roll-out about 6.5 million electronic passports are likely to be handed out to citizens, diplomats and government workers.

The 3 year, Euro 44 million E3Car project launched under the leadership of Infineon, involves 33 automotive companies, key suppliers, and research facilities from 11 countries, and aims to increase efficiency of electrical vehicles by more than 35% by increasing range and improving battery.

Frost & Sullivan confirmed in its market report “World Smart Card IC Markets,” that Infineon was the number 1 supplier of chip card semiconductors, with 25.5 percent market share of the chip card IC market, totaling about US $2.4 Bn. This is the 12th consecutive year Frost & Sullivan researchers have named Infineon as the top supplier for this market.

Infineon’s ORIGA™ chip-based authentication can help implement authentication of PC peripherals and improve the integrity of enterprise systems, assisting IT administrators and other authorized users to use Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT) to authenticate system components and perform inventory checks of networked assets in environments with Intel vPro technology.