INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG

Their core work

Infineon Technologies Austria is the Austrian subsidiary of one of Europe's largest semiconductor manufacturers, specializing in power semiconductors, sensor systems, and security chips. They design and produce components for automotive electronics, industrial automation, energy-efficient power conversion, and secure communication systems. Within H2020, they contribute semiconductor expertise to pilot lines, sensor integration platforms, and electronic systems for vehicles, IoT, and smart manufacturing. Their work spans from GaN power device fabrication to MEMS sensors and quantum-resistant security modules.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In the early H2020 period (2015–2018), Infineon Austria focused on foundational semiconductor manufacturing — GaN pilot lines (PowerBase), Industry 4.0 for chip fabs (SemI40), printed electronics, and sensor frontends/backends (IoSense). Their keywords centered on pilot lines, industrial internet, and base materials. From 2018 onward, the focus shifted toward application-level integration: smart mobility, MEMS for consumer and automotive use, drone systems, hardware security, and biosensing platforms. The evolution shows a clear move up the value chain — from making the chips to defining the systems that use them.

Infineon Austria is moving from component-level semiconductor R&D toward integrated system solutions for autonomous vehicles, secure IoT, and portable sensing — expect future projects at the intersection of hardware security and mobility.

How they like to work

Infineon Austria operates as both a consortium leader and a heavyweight industrial partner. They coordinated 11 of 51 projects (22%), taking the lead particularly in semiconductor manufacturing and power electronics topics where their fab infrastructure is central. With 786 unique partners across 35 countries, they function as a major hub in European electronics R&D — the kind of partner that anchors large ECSEL/RIA consortia and brings both technical credibility and co-funding capacity.

With 786 unique consortium partners across 35 countries, Infineon Austria maintains one of the densest collaboration networks in European electronics R&D. Their partnerships span the full ECS ecosystem — from university research groups to automotive OEMs and other semiconductor companies — with particularly strong ties across Central and Western Europe.

What sets them apart

Infineon Austria is one of very few organizations in Europe that combines active semiconductor fabrication facilities with deep R&D participation — they don't just research, they manufacture at scale in Villach. This makes them uniquely valuable as a partner: they can take a concept from research through pilot line to volume production within a single organization. Their dual capability in power semiconductors AND sensor systems means they can address both the energy/drive side and the sensing/perception side of any electronic system.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PowerBase
  Largest single grant (EUR 2.5M) and coordinator role — established a GaN semiconductor pilot line that underpins Infineon's power electronics leadership in Europe.
• SemI40
  Coordinated this flagship Industry 4.0 project for semiconductor manufacturing, bringing together key enabling technologies for smart production across the European electronics sector.
• PIEDMONS
  Coordinated project on portable quantum ion devices and MEMS — signals an unusual move into quantum-adjacent sensing technology for a traditionally classical semiconductor company.