Renesas Electronics

Renesas Electronics Corporation is a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo. It supplies embedded processors, analog, power and connectivity devices for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications. The company began operations in April 2010 following the merger of NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology; Renesas Technology had been formed in 2003 by combining the non-DRAM semiconductor operations of Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric. As of 2025, Renesas ranks third worldwide in the microcontroller (MCU) market, behind Infineon Technologies and NXP Semiconductors. In the broader automotive semiconductor market, it ranked fifth in 2024 with a 7% share of global sales.