Green, Digital Transformation: Infineon Launches EU Projects for Power Electronics and Artificial Intelligence

• Sustainable products and processes: 130 million euros in research volume in European collaboration with 98 partners
• Gallium nitride chips boost energy efficiency and reduce CO 2 emissions: EU project "ALL2GaN"
• Artificial intelligence strengthens sustainable industry and secure supply chains in Europe: EU "AIMS5.0" project

www.eejournal.com, May. 22, 2023 – 

Villach May 22, 2023 – To tackle the climate crisis, Infineon in Villach is launching two European research projects with enormous thrust: The "ALL2GaN" project is about easily integrated energy-saving chips made of gallium nitride. They have the potential to improve energy efficiency by 30 percent in a wide range of applications and thus save an extrapolated 218 million tons of CO 2 worldwide. The "AIMS5.0" project focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) to create resource-efficient manufacturing across industries as well as optimize supply chain management in Europe. The projects, worth a total of 130 million euros, bring together 98 partners from 18 countries. Both projects will run for three years and are funded by industry investments, grants from the individual countries involved, and the European Key Digital Technologies research program.

With the "Green Deal", the European Union has the goal of making the EU the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. To achieve this, smart, low-emission technologies with a digitally strong, competitive and sustainable industry in Europe are needed more than ever. Research and innovation in pacemaker technologies such as power electronics are crucial catalysts in the implementation of the Green Deal.

Sabine Herlitschka, CEO of Infineon Technologies Austria AG: "Investments in key technologies are essential for achieving the climate targets. This can be achieved through research, cooperation with the best partners and innovations with real impact – as extrapolated here with a savings potential of 218 million tons of CO 2. With these two projects, we are doing just that. Together, we can develop sustainable products and processes faster and make a decisive contribution to decarbonization and digitization. The results strengthen industry and Europe as a location in global competition. They bring more strategic autonomy for Europe and our society, secure supply chains and are a turbo for an energy-efficient future."

New generation of energy-saving chips reduces emissions

The research project "ALL2GaN" (Affordable smart GaN IC solutions for greener applications), led by Infineon Austria, brings together 45 partners from twelve countries with a total budget of around 60 million euros. The aim is to fully exploit the energy-saving potential of highly efficient power semiconductors made of the semiconductor material gallium nitride (GaN), to integrate them easily and quickly into many applications, and thus to reduce emissions.

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