The Dresden plant is the largest single investment in Infineon’s history, one of the largest investment projects in Germany and opens several months ahead of schedule, according to the company.
Global semiconductor company Infineon Technologies has opened its new €5bn chip factory in Dresden, Germany with the company projecting it will create 1,000 new direct jobs.
The company said the Smart Power Fab is the world’s largest such facility for intelligent power semiconductors and analogue and mixed-signal technologies, and will double its manufacturing capacities at the existing Dresden site.
The plant is the largest single investment in Infineon’s history, one of the largest investment projects in Germany and is going online several months ahead of schedule, according to the company.
“We’re opening our new plant at just the right time,” said Jochen Hanebeck, CEO of Infineon. “Our Smart Power Fab is creating urgently needed capacities for the key technologies of the future, for everything from energy supply for AI data centres to software-defined vehicles and renewable energies.”
