Infineon CEO: Semiconductor manufacturers need to pay investment costs, chip prices will also rise sharply

Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss said on Friday that he expects chip prices to rise sharply, and semiconductor manufacturers need to pay investment costs to meet booming demand. Ploss said at the opening ceremony of Infineon’s new power chip factory in Villach, Austria, that chip prices are expected to rise sharply in the future.

But no matter how the situation is good or bad, Infineon is a reliable partner. It is not who will sell the chips to it if the price is higher. Infineon will observe the development direction of various industries, as well as the entire economy. Development. After all, the market is the most important factor in determining prices, and cannot be set in an unfair way.

Infineon announced today that its 300 mm (12-inch) thin wafer power semiconductor chip factory in Villach, Austria has officially started operations. The new plant is expected to increase Infineon’s annual sales by approximately 2 billion euros. In the first stage of capacity expansion, the chips produced will be mainly used to meet the needs of the automotive industry, data centers, and renewable energy power generation fields such as solar and wind energy.

According to reports, this chip factory with a motto of "looking to the future" has a total investment of 1.6 billion euros. It is one of the largest projects of its kind in the European microelectronics field and one of the most modern semiconductor device factories.