Infineon upgrades to platinum membership in open source Zephyr project
Infineon is moving to a platinum-level membership with the Zephyr project, an open-source, community-driven RTOS ecosystem hosted by the Linux Foundation. As a platinum member, Infineon enhances its role in Zephyr’s strategic working groups, contributing to topics such as secured update and lifecycle management for IoT devices; safety concepts for automotive and industrial controllers; and long term support strategies for qualified software baselines.
Zephyr is a collaborative open source project supported by silicon vendors, original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, independent software vendors, and operating system providers to help reduce costs and accelerate time to market for embedded devices. The RTOS is modular and optimised for resource-constrained designs, with support for multiple architectures, making it well suited for connected sensors, wearables, modems, and wireless gateways. Infineon’s enablement includes Zephyr support for Arm-based MCUs including the TRAVEO™ and PSOC families, as well as TriCore support for AURIX microcontrollers, creating a path for developers targeting performance- and safety-oriented applications on this architecture.
“By upgrading to platinum-level membership, Infineon is strengthening its contribution to the Zephyr community and helping developers build connected, resource-constrained devices with greater software reuse, portability, and support across its MCU, automotive MCU and connectivity portfolios,” said Sam Geha, EVP of IoT – Compute & Wireless Business at Infineon. “Over the past decade, Zephyr has empowered developers with a flexible RTOS and a thriving ecosystem. Our platinum membership reflects our intent to invest even more in improving developer experience, strengthening security, and expanding hardware enablement across the Zephyr ecosystem.”
“Zephyr support for AURIX, TRAVEO and PSOC helps automotive customers accelerate Proofs of Concept and reduce time-to-value in the Software-Defined Vehicle era. It also enables developers from the broader IoT ecosystem to leverage familiar tools and workflows on market-leading automotive hardware,” adds Patrick Will, Marketing Head of Automotive Microcontroller Software at Infineon.
“Infineon’s developers have been steady contributors to Zephyr, helping expand hardware support and strengthen the platform that product makers rely on,” said Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at The Linux Foundation. “Advancing to platinum membership signals that Infineon sees open source not as a side investment but as core to how dependable embedded systems get built. We look forward to their expanded role in guiding the project.”
Beyond technical enablement, the platinum-level membership provides broader opportunities to participate in Zephyr committees and contribute to the project’s strategy and to help accelerate secured, scalable, and energy-efficient IoT development for developers worldwide and shape the automotive safety strategy.
