Infineon provides turnkey mobile security solutions with OPTIGA™ Mobile

Munich, Germany – February 19, 2016 – Mobile security is poised for growth as global mobile data traffic from smartphones is expected to increase ten-fold between 2014 and 2020. To provide the market with turnkey mobile security solutions, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today introduced OPTIGA™ Mobile. The new brand extends Infineon’s OPTIGA™ range of embedded security solutions with dedicated services around mobile security. OPTIGA Mobile helps mobile device manufacturers and OS providers to improve the security of their products while reducing investment in security critical production equipment and processes. “With OPTIGA Mobile, we provide all building blocks for implementing a hardware-based Root of Trust in mobile devices”, said Juergen Spaenkuch, head of platform security at Infineon. “Our customers can now seamlessly integrate our chips into existing production and logistic lines. This gives them a competitive advantage and helps to maximize mobile security to the benefit of end users.” Embedding security controllers into mobile devices is a challenging task: device manufacturers and OS providers face a broad range of security-critical processes as well as special logistic requirements for packaging and transport. With its OPTIGA Mobile offering, Infineon delivers customized turnkey security solutions and services directly to the customers’ production site. All security relevant production steps are handled within Infineon’s certified and secured manufacturing premises. OPTIGA Mobile services include among others: In-house generation and injection of keys (symmetric and asymmetric) and (CA-signed) public/private certificates Pre-loading of customer provided static and dynamic data Chip-individual code and data Customer-specific marking and labelling on packages Direct shipments to handset manufacturers or customer manufacturing sites Infineon is a trusted supplier of mobile security solutions. Market giants such as Samsung and Lenovo use Infineon’s leading embedded security solutions to protect sensitive user data in smartphones, tablets as well as smart wearable devices. Further information is available at www.infineon.com/mobile-security Visit us at Mobile World Congress 2016, Barcelona, February 22-25, 2016 Infineon will be presenting at its booth 6C41 in hall 6 a range of inspiring solutions designed to meet rising performance and security demands in a connected world. Demonstrations include embedded security for connected cars, RF front-end solutions for improved mobile user experience and authentication for smart devices. Further information available at www.infineon.com/mwc

About Infineon Infineon Technologies AG is a world leader in semiconductor solutions that make life easier, safer and greener. Microelectronics from Infineon is the key to a better future. In the 2015 fiscal year (ending September 30), the company reported sales of about Euro 5.8 billion with some 35,400 employees worldwide. Infineon is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: IFX) and in the USA on the over-the-counter market OTCQX International Premier (ticker symbol: IFNNY). Further information is available at www.infineon.com This press release is available online at www.infineon.com/press Follow us: twitter.com/Infineon – facebook.com/Infineon – plus.google.com/+Infineon