INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES VOIP SEMICONDUCTOR PROFILE
Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX) (NYSE: IFX), considered one
of the rising stars in the top ten of the VoIP chip market, is another VoIP chip company that also has a stake in the related
DSL and ADSL chip markets. The company shipped over 6 million of its GEMINAX chip sets in 2004. According to Christian Wolff,
Vice President Communications Business Group and General Manager Wireline Access Business Unit at Infineon "The Infineon GEMINAX
MAX chipset is based on our expertise in ADSL2+ technology with more than 6 million ports shipped in 2004 alone. It provides
significant advantage in terms of density, power and cost."
In June of 2005, Infineon continued its conquest of ADSL system
companies. At that time it announced that ADTRAN selected its GEMINAX and ConverGate chipsets for the design of its DSLAM
(DSL Access Multiplexer) products. ADTRAN is considered one of the top three DSL equipment vendors in North America.
In November of 2004, GIPS entered into a license agreement with
Infineon Technologies. As part of that agreement Infineon Technologies licensed GIPS’ iLBC codec. That codec has been
specified, according to GIPS, as the mandatory component for multimedia terminals adaptors.
Infineon so far is noted for its VoIP SLIC products, see the VOIP
product section.
