Infineon Technologies AG is a German semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1999, when the semiconductor operations of the former parent company Siemens AG were spun off.
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12 Facts About Infineon Technologies
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Infineon Technologies has subsidiaries in the US in Milpitas, California, and in the Asia-Pacific region, in Singapore and Tokyo, Japan.
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Infineon Technologies is listed in the DAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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Infineon Technologies delivers a significant number of chips for the new German identity card.
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On 7 July 2009, Infineon Technologies AG agreed by contract with the U S investor Golden Gate Capital on the sale of its Wireline Communications for €250 million.
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Infineon Technologies agreed on 20 August 2014 to buy the International Rectifier Corporation for about $3 billion, one third by cash and two-thirds by credit line.
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In July 2016, Infineon Technologies announced it agreed to buy the North Carolina-based company Wolfspeed from Cree Inc for $850 million in cash.
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In October 2016, Infineon Technologies acquired the company Innoluce which has expertise in MEMS and LiDAR systems for use in autonomous cars.
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In March 2018, Infineon Technologies AG sold its RF Power Business Unit to Cree Inc for €345 Million.
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In June 2019, Infineon Technologies announced it would acquire Cypress Semiconductors for $9.
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In October 2017, it was reported that a flaw, dubbed ROCA, in a code library developed by Infineon Technologies, which had been in widespread use in security products such as smartcards and TPMs, enabled private keys to be inferred from public keys.
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