The chip company Infineon drove up its profit in the fiscal year just ended thanks to the artificial intelligence boom. A profit of €1.51 billion after taxes represents an increase of 49 percent compared with the previous year, according to the DAX-listed company. Revenue even reached a record of €16.4 billion. Compared with 2025, it was up by 12 percent.
Data centers in particular have boosted Infineon’s business – and are expected to continue doing so. The company, headquartered in Neubiberg near Munich, supplies power semiconductors for power delivery here. In the fiscal year just ended, it generated a total of €2.2 billion in revenue from data centers. Of that, €1.7 billion came from AI data centers. And in the new fiscal year 2027, which has already been underway since October, revenue from data centers in total is expected to reach as much as €4 billion.
Infineon CEO Jochen Hanebeck does not share the current concern about whether the AI boom will continue or suffer from growing opposition to data centers or stricter regulation following the Democrats’ election victory in the United States. Even if there is a pushback at present, the hyperscalers would always find places where they could build their data centers – possibly outside the United States as well. There are enough extremely sparsely populated regions. Moreover, the expansion of AI data centers is also strong in other regions, such as China, India, or the Arabian Peninsula.
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