Neubiberg and Stuttgart, Germany – March 23, 2009 – Infineon Technologies AG and Robert Bosch GmbH are widening their cooperation to include power semiconductors.

The collaboration between the companies has two key aspects: First, Bosch is to license from Infineon certain manufacturing processes for power semiconductors – specifically, for low-voltage power MOSFETs (metal oxide silicon field effect transistors) – along with the requisite manufacturing technologies. Second, the collaboration contract between the two companies’ includes a second-source agreement. Parallel to Bosch’s own semiconductor manufacturing in Reutlingen, Infineon will produce components developed on the basis of these processes and will supply Bosch with these components. >

Wonder if the Bosch license covers having chips made by a non-licensee? And which kind of license does Bosch hold?

Of course if Infineon is already a licensee then there may not be any significance to the above. So is Infineon a licensee or not? And what kind of license does Infineon have?

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