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Industries:

  • Manufacturing

Offering Groups:

  • UNIX Servers
  • Computing Products

Solution Areas:

  • Systems & Network Management

Regions:

  • United States

Challenges:

  • Faster speeds to support advanced chip design and increase productivity
  • High capacity to run very large jobs
  • Reliable service and support for the long-term

Benefits:

  • Faster run times shorten design cycle
  • Increased processor speed improves test accuracy and enhances simulations and verifications for a more reliable product

Infineon Technologies AG

High-performance Computing for a High-performance Company

Since spinning off from Siemens AG Electronics, Infineon Technologies has increased revenues by 72 percent and moved from being the tenth-largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world to number nine. With 22 manufacturing and 26 design sites on three continents (Europe, Asia, and North America), Infineon is a global leader in the design and manufacture of innovative semiconductors and systems for a range of technologies: from the power train management system in cars to LAN and WAN networks to cellular and cordless phones to smart cards to the chips running PCs.

Infineon's independence has seen increased profit margins in all five of its business units -- Automotive and Industrial, Wired Communications and Peripherals, Wireless Communications, Security and Chip Card ICs, and Memory Products -- but the growth of the Memory Products division has been extraordinary.

"Your have to be first with the most powerful, fastest chip on the market," says Dirk Knabe, director, Concept Engineering IT R&D, speaking from Infineon headquarters in Munich. "It's a high-volume product, and you can make a lot of money if you're successful and lose a lot of money if you're not."

Infineon has been successful. From the development of the first working DRAM on a 300-mm wafer to a revolutionary new generation of 1-GB DRAM modules, Infineon is a leading competitor in the drive for smaller, more powerful, more available memory technology. Innovation is a requirement to compete, and Infineon invests 14 percent of revenues in R&D.

PRIMEPOWER for Number crunching

It is to advance the technology of that miniature workhorse of the PC industry -- high performance DRAM -- that the people at Infineon's Williston, VT, design center devoted their efforts. Currently, Joerg Kollermeyer, senior CAD engineer, and his team are working to implement an advanced test concept that they will reduce costs, a benefit that will be passed on to customers. The designers draw their circuits and generate chip layouts on their workstations, but the testing of the design requires a powerful server for the intense number-crunching required by the simulation and verification phases of the design process. That is where the PRIMEPOWER 800 comes in.


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