Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Division Engineering of Adaptive Systems

This white paper from the AI Application and Test Center at Fraunhofer IIS highlights the specific opportunities of GenAI – from more efficient processes to a significantly lower burden on employees. 

Small and medium-sized enterprises in particular face major challenges due to rising costs, competitive pressure, and rapid technological change. The use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence offers considerable opportunities but is often perceived as complex and hard to understand. At the same time, it is vital that businesses adapt in order to remain efficient and competitive in the long term.

This year, our labs and research halls are full of Christmas magic. Our employees have prepared a special video that offers a look behind the scenes as well as festive insights into our work. We hope you enjoy it!

We help our customers and partners master their challenges in a practical, customized fashion using various AI approaches. Our solutions are tailored particularly to use cases in which permanent data sovereignty, data protection and high processing speed are vitally important, as well as the traceability of the processes by which the AI systems arrive at their results.

So that smaller systems providers can shoulder the growing development and manufacturing costs for next-generation electronics, a Fraunhofer consortium from Saxony has teamed up with GlobalFoundries to develop a "universal sensor platform" (USeP).

Many of the asymmetric and symmetric encryption methods currently used for the secure transmission of data and information are, in principle, vulnerable to attackers. Systems for the exchange of quantum keys allow a key of any length to be exchanged securely. In our work, we focus on furthering the development of the necessary nanoelectronic components.

Given that electronics are used in many safety-critical areas, such as autonomous driving or medicine, it is vital that users are able to trust them. Trusted electronics are electronics whose mode of operation is precisely understood – regardless of whether they were designed and manufactured in Germany or elsewhere.