AIXTRON wins the prestigious German Innovation Award

EQS-Media / 19.04.2024 / 07:30 CET/CEST

AIXTRON wins the prestigious German Innovation Award

Herzogenrath, April 19, 2024 - AIXTRON (FSE: AIXA) has won the German
Innovation Award. The prestigious award is organized by WirtschaftsWoche,
Accenture, EnBW, and O Telefónica under the patronage of the Federal
Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. The prize was handed over
to the winners in the three categories of large companies, medium-sized
companies, and start-ups at a festive ceremony in Munich last Thursday
evening. AIXTRON, a leading provider of deposition equipment for the
semiconductor industry, came in first place among the large companies.

Since 2010, the award has been given to companies whose innovations and
technologies ensure Germany's competitiveness and significantly contribute
to solving major global challenges.

'It is a great honor for me to accept this important award on behalf of
AIXTRON and our entire team. The German Innovation Award is not only a
recognition of the innovations we have created but also a testimony of
continuous work and the dedication of our team. With our latest G10 product
family, we are setting new productivity and performance standards in the
semiconductor industry so that energy-efficient devices and sensors can be
used more broadly in our daily lives, contributing to CO2 emission reduction
overall while enabling the digital society of tomorrow with even faster and
broader data exchanges between individuals', said Dr. Felix Grawert, CEO and
President of AIXTRON SE, who received the award.

AIXTRON, the high-tech company based in Herzogenrath (Germany), is the
global market leader for semiconductor deposition technology based on MOCVD
(Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition). The production equipment
manufactured by AIXTRON is used to produce compound semiconductors based on
silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN), or gallium arsenide (GaAs).
With the new G10 product family, which has been introduced in the market
since 2022, AIXTRON has played a crucial role in making compound
semiconductors widely commercially available. In the past, compound
semiconductors were only used in specialty applications in optoelectronics,
for example for data transmission via lasers and in LEDs for conventional
lighting.

Now, productivity and cost improvements have made the use of compound
semiconductors commercially viable for a wide range of applications and
contribute to decarbonization and digitization of our economy: Compound
semiconductors based on SiC ensure greater driving range in electric
vehicles, GaN-based semiconductors reduce power consumption and CO2
emissions in data centers, and GaAs-based devices constitute the backbone of
modern data communications: Not only do they master the vastly growing
amounts of data from connected devices of the Internet of Things, but they
are also on the way to find their use within modern AI chips.

'This award is a testament to the excellent achievements AIXTRON has
realized in close collaboration with its customers - not only in terms of
performance but in particular in terms of productivity and cost that opens
up the widespread use of new applications. The foundation for this is the
excellent work of our colleagues in AIXTRON worldwide - from simulation, the
laboratory, and the engineering of new system components to sales and
customer service. The G10 product family is a perfect example of how we at
AIXTRON continue to push the boundaries of what is possible with new
technology,' said Prof. Dr. Michael Heuken, Vice President Advanced
Technologies, AIXTRON SE, who accepted the award together with AIXTRON CEO
Grawert.

Contact Person

Ragah Dorenkamp
Director Corporate Communications
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About AIXTRON:

AIXTRON SE is a leading provider of deposition equipment to the
semiconductor industry. The Company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered
in Herzogenrath (near Aachen), Germany, with subsidiaries and sales offices
in Asia, United States, and in Europe. AIXTRON´s technology solutions are
used by a diverse range of customers worldwide to build advanced components
for electronic and optoelectronic applications based on compound or organic
semiconductor materials. Such components are used in a broad range of
innovative applications, technologies and industries. These include Laser
and LED applications, display technologies, data transmission, SiC and GaN
power management and conversion, communication, signaling and lighting as
well as a range of other leading-edge applications.


Our registered trademarks: AIXACT®, AIXTRON®, Atomic Level SolutionS®, Close
Coupled Showerhead®, CRIUS®, Gas Foil Rotation®, OVPD®, Planetary Reactor®,
PVPD®, TriJet®

For further information on AIXTRON (FSE: AIXA, ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6) please
visit our website at: www.aixtron.com.

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AIXTRON may materially vary from those described explicitly or implicitly in
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factors, such as actual customer orders received by AIXTRON, the level of
demand for deposition technology in the market, the timing of final
acceptance of products by customers, the condition of financial markets and
access to financing for AIXTRON, general conditions in the market for
deposition plants and macroeconomic conditions, cancellations, rescheduling
or delays in product shipments, production capacity constraints, extended
sales and qualification cycles, difficulties in the production process, the
general development in the semi-conductor industry, increased competition,
fluctuations in exchange rates, availability of public funding, fluctuations
and/or changes in interest rates, delays in developing and marketing new
products, a deterioration of the general economic situation and any other
factors discussed in any reports or other announcements , in particular in
the chapter Risks in the Annual Report, filed by AIXTRON. Any
forward-looking statements contained in this document are based on current
expectations and projections of the executive board based on information
available the date hereof. AIXTRON undertakes no obligation to revise or
update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future
events or otherwise, unless expressly required to do so by law.

This document is also available in a German language translation version. In
case of discrepancies, the English language document shall prevail and shall
be the valid version.


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   Language:       English
   Company:        AIXTRON SE
                   Dornkaulstraße 2
                   52134 Herzogenrath
                   Germany
   Phone:          +49 (2407) 9030-0
   Fax:            +49 (2407) 9030-445
   E-mail:         invest@aixtron.com
   Internet:       www.aixtron.com
   ISIN:           DE000A0WMPJ6
   WKN:            A0WMPJ
   Indices:        MDAX, TecDAX
   Listed:         Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard);
                   Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf,
                   Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate
                   Exchange; Nasdaq OTC
   EQS News ID:    1884267

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