Apr. 10 at 10:31 AM
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How chipmaker Infineon could shake up the auto industry
In the coming years, the market leader in microcontrollers wants to focus on an open standard – and thus primarily on ARM
Infineon is venturing into uncharted territory. The Munich-based semiconductor company, the global market leader in microcontrollers (MCUs), is announcing a strategic shift: In the future, MCUs will no longer be based on its proprietary architecture, but rather on the open RISC-V instruction set. What at first glance appears to be a technical side note could have far-reaching consequences for the automotive industry.
Infineon's next generation, under the established Aurix brand name, is intended to cover all performance classes for MCUs – from simple tasks to critical real-time applications. A first virtual prototype was presented at the Embedded World 2025 trade fair in March , but Infineon has so far withheld details on the structure of the RISC-V cores.
https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000264599/wie-chiphersteller-infineon-die-autoindustrie-durchruetteln-koennte