“Can Infineon's security silicon become the de facto hardware root-of-trust for biometric payment cards and secure elements globally?”
Infineon Technologies is a global semiconductor manufacturer spun out of Siemens in 1999, primarily focused on power semiconductors, automotive chips, and security ICs. In the embedded finance context, Infineon is not a buyer of embedded finance services but rather a supplier of security silicon (SECORA Pay, SLE family chips) that underpins payment cards, biometric payment cards, and secure elements used by card issuers, banks, and fintechs worldwide. Its partnership with Fingerprint Cards to enable biometric payment cards reflects its strategic positioning as infrastructure-layer hardware for the global payments industry.
Infineon is founded in 1999 and headquartered in Neubiberg, Germany.
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