Wolfgang Mayrhuber has informed the members of the Supervisory Board and the Management Board of Infineon Technologies AG that he will resign as member and Chairman of the Supervisory Board effective as of the end of the Annual General Meeting on 22 February 2018. Mayrhuber, aged 70, has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Infineon Technologies AG since 2011. The Supervisory Board will propose that the Annual General Meeting elect Dr. Wolfgang Eder, Chief Executive Officer of voestalpine AG, Linz, Austria, to the Supervisory Board as a new shareholder representative. The Supervisory Board considers Dr. Eder perfectly suited to take on the chairmanship of the supervisory board in the medium term. Initially, Dr. Eckart Sünner, who has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 2007, shall succeed Wolfgang Mayrhuber as Supervisory Board Chairman.