March 6, 2025. Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) is paving the way for the introduction of RISC-V in the automotive industry: The company will launch a new family of automotive microcontrollers based on RISC-V within the next few years.
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This new family will become part of Infineon’s established automotive microcontroller brand AURIX™. It will expand the company’s existing portfolio of automotive microcontrollers based on TriCore™ (AURIX TC family) and Arm® (TRAVEO™ family, PSOC™ family). The new AURIX family will cover a wide range of automotive applications, from entry-level MCUs to high-performance MCUs that go beyond what is available on the market today. At Embedded World 2025, Infineon is now presenting a virtual prototype – supported by key ecosystem partners. This is a starter kit that enables Infineon’s partners to begin software development before the hardware is available.
“Infineon is committed to making RISC-V the open standard for the automotive industry,” says Peter Schiefer, President of Infineon’s Automotive Division. “In the age of software-defined vehicles, real-time capability, functional and cyber security as well as flexibility, scalability and software portability will become even more important than they already are today. Microcontrollers based on RISC-V help to meet these complex requirements while reducing vehicle complexity and time-to-market.”
Infineon is the global market leader for automotive microcontrollers with a market share of 28.5 percent (Source: TechInsights: Automotive Semiconductor Vendor Market Shares. 2001 to 2023). Through the Quintauris joint venture, Infineon is working with other semiconductor industry leaders to accelerate the industrialization of RISC-V based products. Infineon is now the first semiconductor manufacturer to announce an automotive microcontroller family based on RISC-V.
To facilitate the implementation of the future product family, Infineon is working with its software and tool partners to establish a comprehensive ecosystem. The virtual prototype kit that Infineon is presenting at Embedded World 2025 is based on the tool suite from Synopsys, a strategic partner of the company. It will support the development of the ecosystem and accelerate its growth, as partner companies can use it to start developing their software and tool products for Infineon’s RISC-V architecture now – even before the microcontroller hardware is available.
Multiple partners such as IAR, Elektrobit, Green Hills, HighTec, Lauterbach, PLS, Synopsys and Tasking have already started working with the kit and will show first solutions at Embedded World 2025. More partners will follow in the course of 2025. Based on their solutions, the virtual prototype will evolve into a complete digital twin of Infineon’s future microcontroller family, enabling customers to shorten their development and time-to-market.
Infineon Technologies AG is a leading global provider of semiconductor solutions for power systems and the Internet of Things (IoT). With its products and solutions, Infineon is driving decarbonization and digitalization. The company has around 58,060 employees worldwide (end of September 2024) and generated revenue of around €15 billion in the 2024 fiscal year (end of September).
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