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Infineon based a new AURIX microcontroller platform on RISC-V, with samples due in 2027

AURIX RC1, Infineon's first microcontroller platform built on the RISC-V instruction set, brings its AURIX and TRAVEO T2G lines into one family spanning zone, body, chassis, battery, powertrain and cockpit control.

Infineon Technologies announced on November 4 a new microcontroller platform within its AURIX series, AURIX RC1, which the company said is its first microcontroller platform to use the open RISC-V instruction set. According to the release, Infineon will present the family concept at the electronica trade fair in Munich from November 10 to 13 and aims to provide samples in the first half of 2027.

The company said the platform brings together AURIX and its TRAVEO T2G family for body, connectivity and display applications into one next-generation family. Its stated application range runs from zone, body and chassis control, battery management and powertrains to safety management for driver assistance and cockpit functions. Infineon framed it as a common base for architectures in which functions move into central computers and zonal controllers, rather than one chip per domain, with software, tools and expertise reusable across applications.

Depending on the part, AURIX RC1 will integrate up to 12 32-bit cores, a parallel processing unit for edge AI and up to 40 megabytes of embedded memory, and Infineon plans a lineup that adds 64-bit microprocessor capability. The release says the platform is designed for applications up to ASIL D and has security mechanisms meeting standards and rules such as ISO/SAE 21434 and the Cyber Resilience Act, with hardware support for crypto-agility, and Infineon said the platform is ready for future security requirements such as post-quantum cryptography. Supported networking includes CAN-XL, 10BASE-T1S and multi-gigabit Ethernet.

Why it mattersFolding two microcontroller lines into one RISC-V family means code written for a body or zone controller can, on Infineon's account, be reused on parts for other domains, which changes how much of a carmaker's real-time software is tied to a single chip line.

Source: Infineon Technologies press release, November 4, 2026

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