Infineon: How Europe's Largest Chipmaker Partners With Startups | Let's Talk About Tech #73

Berthold Baurek-Karlic welcomes Andreas Mühlberger, Strategic Partner Manager at Infineon, to Let’s Talk About Tech for a conversation about how Europe’s largest semiconductor company works with startups. From co-innovation and venture clienting to the realities of scaling hardware, they explore what it really takes to industrialize technology in Europe. They discuss why 25% of Infineon's global R&D happens in Austria, what it means to produce 8 billion chips a year in Villach, why a 300-millimetre wafer has to be thinner than a human hair, and how the co-innovation program gives startups access not just to Infineon's products but to its 60,000 experts. Mühlberger also breaks down the four ways a startup can end up working with Infineon, from customer to business partner to IP licensing to supplier, explains how the startup challenge selected 12 European and 6 Asian teams out of 104 applicants from 29 countries, and shares his perspective on why Europe produces world-class research but keeps losing the industrialization stage to the US and Asia.   Guest Speaker: Andreas Mühlberger ➡️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasmuehlberger/ Infineon Co-Innovation Program: https://www.infineon.com/partners/startups 📅 The demo day takes place on 6 October in Graz, alongside the EBS Con electronics conference: https://www.infineon.com/partners/startups/humanoid-robotics Investors interested in joining can get in touch with Venionaire Capital.   Moderator: Berthold Baurek-Karlic ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/berthold-baurek-karlic-30228045/ Venionaire Capital: 🌐 Website: https://www.venionaire.com 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/venionaire/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/venionaire/