Wuxi facility Wuxi has been designated as a pilot city for IoT technologies in China. Infineon already has one factory operating in the region and the new factory is scheduled for rollout at the end of 2016. When fully operational the factory will employ 2,500 staff. The semiconductor company is taking the long view of IoT adoption in China. It is ignoring the recent slow down in economic growth in China, which is still the world’s fasted growing technology economy. Dr. Reinhard Ploss, CEO of Infineon Technologies said: “It highlights Infineon’s confidence in the continuous opportunities of the Chinese market as well as our commitment to substantial investment in China and our determination to support the ‘In China, For China’ strategy”. The new wafer fab will be implement smart factory technologies in assembly and test German as defined in the so-called Industry 4.0 initiative. Infineon is collaborating with the Wuxi-based internet of things R&D centre of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and provides one of the ten IoT reference cases in the city with its IoT-enabled facility. The new factory in Wuxi will implement sensing, security, power and processor-based control of production procedures, making the link between IoT and manufacturing as defined by Industry 4.0. The factory will produce ICs and power discrete products for end markets such as automotive, industrial, power management and security card applications.
Infineon Technologies is investing $300m in an Industry 4.0 smart factory for producing semiconductors in Wuxi. Infineon already has one factory operating in the region and the new factory, which will employ 2,500 staff, is scheduled for rollout at the end of 2016. Infineon is collaborating with the Wuxi-based internet of things R&D centre of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and provides one of the ten IoT reference cases in the city with its IoT-enabled facility. The factory will produce ICs and power discrete products for end markets such as automotive, industrial, power management and security card applications.