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Technology for
Optimizing Power
Generation,
Transmission, and
Consumption
Dr. Reinhard Ploss, CEO
Infineon
Meet the Leader
Dr. Reinhard Ploss, CEO: Ploss has been a member of the Management Board of Infineon Technologies
AG since 2007. He has been CEO since 1 October 2012. Reinhard Ploss was born on 8 December 1955 in
Bamberg. He studied process engineering at the Technical University of Munich and in 1986 received his
doctorate. He began his career at Infineon (Siemens AG until 1999) in the same year.
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ontactless infrastructures
are becoming increasingly
widespread with companies
such as Mastercard and Visa offering
more and more tokenization
and card digitization services.
This trend is paving the way for
almost anything to be turned into
a contactless payment device.
Consumers will be able to carry
payment accessories such as rings,
tokens, key rings, bracelets, and
watches or wear them on their
fingers, wrists or around their necks.
This is giving customers new-found
levels of convenience to choose
their own method of payment. The
contactless symbols, therefore,
signal a fun, fast, and secure
purchasing experience. According
to figures from Mastercard, one
march 2019
quarter (24 percent) of Europeans
expect to start using “tap and
go” contactless payments with a
smartwatch, bracelet, key ring, or
other payment accessories. It is
clear that contactless payment is
already very common in some parts
of the world.
Infineon is currently the only
company in the market offering
a full-spectrum portfolio of all
power technologies – silicon (Si),
silicon carbide (SiC) and GaN. It
delivers solutions from microamps
to megawatts with superior energy
efficiency, offering highly reliable
IGBTs, power MOSFETs, GaN e-mode
HEMTs, power discretes, protected
switches, Si drivers, GaN drivers,
IGBT modules, intelligent power
modules (IPMs), linear regulators,
motor control solutions, LED
drivers, and all forms of AC-DC, DC-
DC, and digital power conversion.
Mission Statement
With entrepreneurial
spirit: Through creativity and
commitment, the company creates
value for its customers, employees,
and investors. It understands
how semiconductors increase the
performance of modern technology
and enable solutions that will
shape peoples’ lives today and
tomorrow. Developed with passion
and manufactured with precision,
every single product proves its
will to succeed. This is what makes