Frequently Asked Questions

All shareholders who are recorded in the Company’s stock register and have registered for the Annual General Meeting by no later than the end of February 21, 2013 are entitled to participate in the Annual General Meeting. Participation and voting rights are based on the shareholding recorded in the stock register on the day of the Annual General Meeting. However please be aware that for organizational reasons, no transfer entries can be made in the Company’s stock register between February 22, 2013 and the day of the Annual General Meeting (both days inclusive).

Your registration must be received no later than February 21, 2013. We cannot consider notices of attendance received after that date.

Registrations for the Annual General Meeting may be submitted in text form

• to the following address
  Infineon Hauptversammlung 2013
  81056 Munich
  Germany,
  
  or to the fax number
  +49 (0)89 234 955 0153
  
  or to the following e-mail address
  hv2013@infineon.com

or

• by visiting the following website
  www.infineon.com/agm

In order to use our Internet site at  www.infineon.com/agm, you will need an individual access code. Your individual access code will be sent to you with the Annual General Meeting documents. If you have already registered for electronic delivery of the General Meeting documents in the past, please use the individual access code you have chosen.

Yes, you can obtain up to two admission tickets.

You may use our Internet site to register for the Annual General Meeting, cast your votes by mail ballot or appoint a proxy and issue voting instructions. Please use your shareholder number and individual access code to access our Internet site. Your individual access code will be sent to you with the Annual General Meeting documents. If you have already registered for electronic delivery of the General Meeting documents in the past, please use the individual access code you have chosen.

Invitations are distributed starting January 30, 2013. If you are an ADR holder you will receive your information package from Deutsche Bank.

All persons who are recorded in the Company’s stock register are entitled to participate in the Annual General Meeting. If the shares are sold, the seller will presumably be deleted from the stock register by the day of the Annual General Meeting and will therefore no longer be authorized to participate. If an admission ticket has already been issued, it becomes invalid.

Please fill in the "change of address" coupon on the back of the letter accompanying the Notice of Annual General Meeting or submit changes via our Internet site. To use our Internet site, please use your shareholder number and individual access code. Your individual access code will be sent to you with the Annual General Meeting documents. If you have already registered for electronic delivery of the General Meeting documents in the past, please use the individual access code you have chosen. In any case, you should also contact your depositary bank.

No. Your entitlement is independent of your participation or voting in the Annual General Meeting. Please note, however, that a dividend can only be paid if a majority of shareholders participating in the Annual General Meeting supports the boards’ proposals.

The Supervisory Board and Management Board propose to pay a dividend of EUR 0.12 per qualifying share. The total amount proposed to be distributed to the shareholders amounts to approximately EUR 129 mio. (the exact amount depends on the number of own shares held by the Company – which do not qualify for a dividend – at the time of the Annual General Meeting).

According to the proposal of the Supervisory Board and Management Board the amount remaining after the dividend payment will be transferred to other revenue reserves (andere Gewinnrücklagen), thereby strengthening the substance of the Company.

Due to Infineon’s previous tax balance sheet losses, a dividend payment will be drawn from the contributions account for tax purposes. Hence, Infineon is not required to deduct and remit investment income tax or a solidarity surcharge on dividend payments from the contributions account for tax purposes. A dividend can thus in principle be paid to German shareholders gross with no tax deduction irrespective of whether the shareholder is a natural person or an institutional investor.

For a German investor, the dividend represents a return on capital that is tax-free in principle and merely reduces the original cost of the shares.

The dividend is also in principle paid gross with no tax deduction to shareholders outside Germany. However, it is not possible to make any generally applicable statement on taxation in specific countries of residence.

Our shareholders are too many and too variable in their circumstances for us to be able to provide any reliable general information on taxation and you are therefore requested to contact your tax advisor for specific details.

This depends on the share price. Relative to an assumed share price of EUR 6.00 and based upon a dividend of EUR 0.12 per share the dividend yield is 2.00%.

All Infineon shares that are in your securities account on the day of the Annual General Meeting that decides upon the proposed dividend qualify for a dividend.

The decisive accounts are those of Infineon Technologies AG, which have been prepared in accordance with the German Commercial Code (HGB). The balance sheet profit (Bilanzgewinn) shown there is subject to the resolution of the Annual General Meeting.

Provided that the Annual General Meeting on February 28, 2013, decides a dividend, the payment will be effected on March 1, 2013 (ex dividend date).

The dividend will be credited to your bank account on the payment date. You do not have to provide for any specific arrangements.

Please contact your personal/custodian bank.

Normally the shareholder’s bank draws up a statement of the dividend paid and informs its customer accordingly. Infineon does not notify the shareholders.