TECHNOLOGY 92 JUNE 2016 © Infi neon, Pixabay AUSTRIAN KNOW-HOW AND CHIP TECHNOLOGY FROM GRAZ FOR BARCELONA’S PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM: Infi neon’s worldwide competence centre for contactless and security technologies is located in Graz. This centre’s expertise is used for the further development of ticketing systems for public transport systems. CIPURSETM, the contactless security standard, is predominantly developed in Graz and is already used in major cities such as Sao Paolo (BRA), Perm (RUS), Budapest (HUN), and Medellin (COL). This contactless technology enables secure electronic transactions via chip cards or mobile devices. Since this year, Barcelona also uses the new electronic payment system “T-Mobilitat” on contactless security chips. Single tickets and tickets for 10 rides were replaced by chip-based tickets. This means that approximately fi ve million residents have access to all of the city’s public transport options, including “Metro Barcelona”, busses, and other means of transport. In the long-term, the entire Catalonian region will switch to contactless ticketing. company’s production site in Villach. “Our comprehensive competences in power electronics became a vital component of our success due to the globally strong demand for chips to increase energy effi ciency for industry, vehicle, and consumer applications,” says Sabine Herlitschka, chairwoman of Infi neon Technologies Austria AG. AUSTRIA’S MOST EFFICIENT PRODUCTION PLANT IN 2015 15.5 billion chips were produced in Villach in the 2015 fi scal year. The manufacturing plant in Villach is the Infi neon group’s competence centre for the production of power electronics. Innovative production methods like 300-mm thin-wafer technology were consistently developed to market maturity at this plant. The volume production of this new generation of semiconductors for automotive applications was launched in mid-2015. These new chips are the world’s thinnest of their kind and contribute signifi cantly to increased energy effi ciency and therefore to the decrease of CO2 emissions of vehicles. Infi neon Austria is the world’s fi rst company to launch the series production of semiconductors with 300-millimetre thin-wafer technology. When it comes to “industry 4.0”, Infi neon takes the lead in Austria.
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