Infineon Technologies will launch a new family of automotive microcontrollers based on RISC-V in the next few years. The family will be part of AURIX™ (Infineon's automotive brand). It will expand the current range of automotive MCUs, which are based on TriCore™ (AURIX™ TC series) and Arm® (TRAVEO™ series, PSOC™ series).
This series will cover a wide range of automotive applications. From entry-level to high-performance MCUs, it covers a range beyond what is currently on the market.
At the Embedded World 2025 exhibition, Infineon released a virtual prototype realized together with key ecosystem partners. The kit will become entry-level for Infineon partners to start pre-silicon software development.
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Microcontroller (MCU) is the core of many applications, from environmentally friendly, safe and intelligent automotive systems to IoT devices. It changed people's daily lives, work, and interactions, and industrial machinery that promotes productivity.
Infineon has several MCU product lines. Its applications include smart furniture, industrial automation, and edge AI. Besides, it acquired Cypress and GaN Systems to strengthen the synergy between MCU and power semiconductors and sensors.
Infineon Takes the Lead in Launching Automotive-grade RISC-V MCU Series
According to the report on March 10, Infineon officially jumped to the top of the global microcontroller market. It became the market leader for the first time. According to the latest research from Omdia, Infineon's market share in 2024 reached 21.3%. It has an increase of 3.5 percentage points from 17.8% in 2023, the largest increase among competitors.
As the global automotive MCU market leader, Infineon has a 28.5% market share. Infineon is partnering with other semiconductor companies in its joint venture, Quintauris. They aim to speed up the industrialization of RISC-V-based products. Currently, Infineon is the first semiconductor supplier to announce the launch of the automotive-grade RISC-V MCU series.
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To promote the popularity of this future product family, Infineon is working closely with its software and tool partners to build a comprehensive ecosystem. The virtual prototype starter kit presented at Embedded World 2025 is developed based on the tool suite of Infineon's strategic partner Synopsys. The kit supports Infineon's partners to develop development software and tool products for Infineon's RISC-V architecture before the MCU hardware is available, thus helping to accelerate the construction and development of the ecosystem.
“Infineon is committed to making RISC-V the open standard for the automotive industry,” said Peter Schiefer, President of Infineon’s Automotive Division. “In the era of software-defined vehicles, real-time performance, safe and secured computing as well as flexibility, scalability and software portability become even more important than today. Microcontrollers based on RISC-V help to meet these complex requirements, reducing vehicle complexity and time to market at the same time.”
In addition, Infineon also demonstrated several innovations in its PSOC multi-purpose series, including the latest advances in power and motor control in the new PSOC Control series, and PSOC Edge's CRA-ready edge AI. It focused on the latest features of the PSOC 4 microcontroller series. By expanding leading capacitive sensing to new inductive and liquid sensing technologies in a single MCU, Infineon has achieved new application scenarios and higher integration.
Infineon Leads the Transformation of Automotive Electronics Technology
The rise of Infineon is mainly due to the explosive growth of the automotive electronics market. In 2023, Infineon's sales in the automotive MCU field increased by nearly 44% year-on-year. Its market share reached 29%, surpassing Japan's Renesas Electronics for the first time and ranking first in the world. In 2024, its overall share in the automotive semiconductor market also increased to 14%, ranking global first for many consecutive years.
Infineon's MCU products cover the fields of automobiles, the Internet of Things (IoT), industrial automation, etc. The core product lines include AURIX™, TRAVEO™, PSOC™, XMC™, and security MCU.
AURIX™ series: mainly for automotive electronics, supporting active driving, electrification, and software-defined vehicles (SDV), is the mainstream choice of global automakers.
TRAVEO™ series: focusing on body control and infotainment systems, helping to make cars smarter.
PSOC™ series: integrating capacitors, inductors, and liquid sensing technologies, suitable for industrial and consumer electronics fields, supporting edge AI computing.
Infineon has promoted the transformation of the automotive industry through its technological innovation. Its AURIX™ series products have been delivered in total over 1 billion pieces, covering more than 50 automotive brands. With a defect rate of less than 0.15 parts per million, it has become the core component of the electrification and intelligent transformation of automakers such as Tesla and Volkswagen. In 2023, its market share in China's automotive semiconductor market reached 13.8%, and it has in-depth cooperation with automakers such as BYD and NIO.
In terms of electrification and intelligence, Infineon's AURIX MCU supports ADAS systems and battery management with high computing power requirements, helping to improve the endurance and safety of electric vehicles.
In terms of supply chain optimization, in the context of the previous global chip shortage, Infineon relied on its vertical integration capabilities to ensure supply. In 2023, the price of some models of its automotive MCUs once soared to RMB 6,000, highlighting the scarcity of the market.
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With its deep technical accumulation in the field of automotive electronics, continuously innovative embedded solutions, and a complete product ecosystem acquired through the acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor, Infineon has successfully built a full-scenario MCU technology matrix covering traditional fuel vehicles to smart electric vehicles. Combined with the high-reliability certification system of automotive-grade chips, it has firmly ranked first in the automotive MCU market. Nowadays, it has achieved the same success in the global MCU market.
Since 2015, Infineon's MCU business has grown at an average annual rate of 13%, far exceeding the industry's average growth rate of 4%. According to Omdia, the global MCU market size is US$28 billion in 2023. Thanks to adjustments of the demand structure, it drops to US$22.4 billion in 2024. However, Infineon still achieves counter-cyclical growth through differentiated competition.
“The fact that we have strengthened our position is proof of our superior product portfolio, software and easy-to-use development tools that exceed our customers’ expectations,” says Andreas Urschitz, Chief Marketing Officer and Member of the Management Board at Infineon. “Over the past decade, we have repeatedly outgrown the total market and gained market share by offering our customers highly functional and efficient system solutions that are at the heart of many innovations that drive decarbonization and digitalization.”