On September 17, local time, the CEO of Infineon said at the official launch ceremony of the 12-inch wafer fab in Austria that chip prices are expected to continue to rise sharply.
The opening of Infineon’s new plant hit the old German factory (mainly manufacturing vehicle power, power management, general MOS, etc.) with two power outages. The supply chain confirmed that Infineon was counting the product models and quantities affected by this wave of power outages.
On the same day, Infineon CEO Ploss said at the opening ceremony of this new power semiconductor fab that chip prices are expected to rise sharply in the future, adding that semiconductor manufacturers need to pay investment costs to meet booming demand.
According to reports, this chip factory with a motto of "Facing the Future" has a total investment of 1.6 billion Euros. It is one of the largest and most modern projects in the field of power semiconductors in Europe. Thanks to the highly automated technology, the factory only needs 10 workers to maintain operations, which is only 7% of the old factory's manpower.
Infineon said that its Villach plant will help alleviate the bottleneck of major customers, many of its customers are located nearby. Ploss said: "Our message to our customers is that we can supply, although it will take at least four months for the delivery of power chips."
However, in the past six months, Infineon has suffered huge financial gaps due to its own capacity constraints, rising foundry costs, and the commissioning of new factories. With reference to TSMC and other fabs, if it wants to reverse the financial year and even the current quarter's report data, In the short term, it may only be achieved by adjusting chip prices and maintaining high gross profit.
At the same time, Ploss has repeatedly emphasized that "chip prices are too low to be acceptable." But no matter the situation is good or bad, Infineon is a reliable partner. “It’s not that Infineon will sell the chip to it if the price is higher.” The price is determined by the market and cannot be priced in an “unfair way”. .
According to reports, the new plant is expected to bring about 2 billion euros in annual sales growth for Infineon. In the first stage of capacity expansion, the chips produced will be mainly used to meet the needs of automobiles, data centers, and renewable energy power generation. .
As a well-known company in power semiconductors, will the channel prices of Infineon products experience a wave of skyrocketing again?
