Change at the top of Corporate & Investor Communications

Munich, February 20, 2002 - Matthias Poth, 36, took over as head of Corporate & Investor Communications at Infineon Technologies AG in mid-February. Poth joined Infineon in September 1999 and has since been responsible for Investor Relations and Financial Communications.

Previously, Poth held positions at Salomon Brothers in New York and Hoechst in Frankfurt, among others. Poth succeeds Guy M. Wolff, who built up the communications department and spearheaded communications at the time Infineon went public. Wolff is returning to the land of his birth, where he will take on new duties.

Corporate & Investor Communications includes the departments Investor Relations (also headed by M. Poth), Media Relations (K. Schlendorf), Brand & Executive Communications (B. Graml) and Marketing Communications (T. Polahar).