At Renesas, we aspire to be the world’s leading semiconductor company, which also means developing sustainable products and solutions that benefits all humankind.
Renesas, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Built on combined experience and expertise, we began operation in 2010. Following the acquisition of Intersil and IDT, Renesas now stand with approximately 19,000 employees with 14 manufacturing sites and 38 sales offices operating in more than 20 countries worldwide. We deliver trusted embedded design innovation with complete solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices to enhance the way people work and live. A global leader in microcontrollers, analog, power, and SoC products, Renesas provides comprehensive solutions for a broad range of automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT applications that help shape a limitless future. In 2019, we posted revenue of 718.2 billion JPY.
At Renesas, we aspire to be the world’s leading semiconductor company, which also means developing sustainable products and solutions that benefits all humankind. We want to build a future where our products and solutions help make lives easier and creates a better world for all of us. To make everything intelligent and connected, high computing performance plays a key role. We believe that energy efficiency and robust safety and security goes even further to make our products and our customers’ systems sustainable, which ultimately contributes to realizing a greener society.
Renesas's RA 32-bit microcontroller family uses Arm Cortex-M33, -M23, -M4, and -M85 cores, providing stronger embedded security and ultra-low-power operation.
Pooja Bhadrappanavar, Business Development Manager at Renesas Electronics, demonstrates how the company’s volatile-organic-compounds sensor can be used to check air quality.
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The Bluetooth Low Energy 5.3 chip, developed by Renesas, not only cuts power consumption, but it helps lower an EV’s weight by eliminating sensor wires.
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The USB-C charger/port controller platform offers high efficiency and robust safety features for power tools, portable vacuums, lawn mowers, two-wheelers, and more.
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Magnetic-free dual-coil technology can create a high-resolution, precise, and reliable solution for motor position sensors used in robotics, industrial, and medical devices.
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In a signal-conditioning op-amp application there are a number of different approaches to take—what noise and SFDR advantages might one offer over another.
From electronic fuses with built-in protection to small-form-factor SSDs for PCs, check out some of the latest products from around the electronics industry.
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Renesas enters the automotive radar market with a 4x4-channel, 76- to 81-GHz transceiver designed to meet the requirements of ADAS and Level 3 and higher autonomous-driving applications...
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Dr. Sailesh Chittipeddi, Executive VP & General Manager for IoT & Infrastructure at Renesas, talks about artificial intelligence in edge-computing nodes.
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