India, July 20 -- Infineon Technologies AG opened the Smart Power Fab in Dresden several months ahead of schedule.

The new plant, with an investment volume of five billion euros, is the largest single investment in Infineon's history and one of the largest investment projects in Germany, creating 1,000 new, direct jobs. The new fab doubles Infineon's manufacturing capacities at the Dresden site, thus creating the world's largest factory for intelligent power semiconductors and analog / mixed-signal technologies.

"We're opening our new plant at just the right time," says Jochen Hanebeck, CEO of Infineon Technologies AG.

"Our Smart Power Fab is creating urgently needed capacities for the key technologies of the future, for everything fro...