Infineon Expands PSOCTM Control C3 family With PSC3M/P6 Featuring Advanced Security for Multi-Motor Control and Power Conversion Systems - ELE Times

This is not a product refresh — it is a strategic land-grab at the intersection of hardware security and multi-axis control. By fusing a lockstep safety core with multi-motor PWM into a single die, Infineon eliminates the discrete safety-MCU-plus-isolated-driver stack from the BOM. Downstream, 800V e-drive platforms, six-plus-axis industrial robots, and data-center precision PSUs see design cycles compressed by 20-30%. Upstream, AFE and SiC/GaN interface protocols will be renegotiated. On compliance: UN R155 and ISO 26262 ASIL-D are shifting from differentiators to entry tickets. Hardening security into the control core shifts verification cost from system-level to chip-level — a tailwind for mid-tier Tier 1s, a direct threat to OEMs running in-house controllers. Competitive read: TI's C2000 holds over 40% of industrial motor-control share but its safety architecture remains software-centric. Infineon's move exploits that structural gap precisely. Expect NXP S32K and Renesas RH850 to accelerate safety-IP licensing within 18 months. Outlook: in 12-24 months, humanoid robotics with 20+ joints and eVTOL multi-rotor drives become the largest incremental demand. The security-plus-multi-axis-plus-low-power triangle will eliminate pure-software safety approaches. Hardware security cores are becoming the new ARM of the MCU landscape.