Renesas Electronics
Renesas Electronics Corporation (ルネサス エレクトロニクス株式会社, Runesasu Erekutoronikusu Kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, initially incorporated in 2002 as Renesas Technology, the consolidated entity of the semiconductor units of Hitachi and Mitsubishi excluding their dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) businesses, to which NEC Electronics merged in 2010, resulting in a minor change in the corporate name and logo to as it is now.
Native name | ルネサス エレクトロニクス株式会社 |
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| Company type | Public (KK) |
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| Industry | Semiconductor |
| Predecessor | NEC Electronics, Renesas Technology (chip units of Hitachi and Mitsubishi) |
| Founded | November 1, 2002 as Renesas Technology April 1, 2010 as Renesas Electronics |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Hidetoshi Shibata (Representative Director, President and CEO) |
| Products | Semiconductors |
| Revenue | ¥1,500.9 billion (2022) |
| ¥424.1 billion (2022) | |
| ¥256.6 billion (2022) | |
| Total assets | ¥2.81 trillion (2022) |
| Total equity | ¥1.54 trillion (2022) |
Number of employees | 21,017 (as of December 31, 2022) |
| Website | renesas |
In the 2000s to early 2010s, Renesas had been one of the six largest semiconductor companies in the world. As of 2022, it is the world's third-largest automotive semiconductor company and the largest microcontroller supplier. The company also has presences in the markets of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, memory devices, and SoCs.
The brand Renesas is a contraction of "Renaissance Semiconductor for Advanced Solutions".