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IDM with a broad range of MCUs, SoCs, analog, and power devices.
LAST UPDATED ON June 6th, 2023
Renesas Electronics Corporation designs and manufactures microcontrollers, microprocessors, analog, power, and SoC products for a broad range of automotive, industrial, home electronics, office automation, and information communication technology applications.
It ranks as one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world and one of the largest providers of automotive electronics.
Renesas’ acquisitions:
- November 2010: Acquired Nokia’s Wireless Modem business.
- February 2017: Acquired Intersil Corporation, a provider of power management and precision analog solutions for industrial and infrastructure, mobile computing, automotive and aerospace.
- March 2019: Acquired Integrated Device Technology, a supplier of analog mixed-signal products, including sensors, connectivity and wireless power.
- August 2021: Acquired Dialog Semiconductor, a provider of battery and power management, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth low energy, and Industrial edge computing solutions.
- December 2021: Acquired Celeno Communications (Celeno), an Isreal-based provider of advanced Wi-Fi chipsets and software solutions for smart buildings and infrastructure, and is leveraging that technology to address a wide range of Wi-Fi client and access point applications for Wi-Fi 6/6E and Wi-Fi 7.
- July 2022: Acquired Reality Analytics, Inc. (Reality AI), provider of embedded AI solutions. Reality AI offered embedded AI and Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) solutions for advanced non-visual sensing in automotive, industrial and commercial products.
- October 2022: Acquired Steradian, a fabless semiconductor company providing 4D imaging radar solutions. Renesas starts using Steradian’s technology in its RAA270205 high-definition radar transceiver, available 1Q/2023.
- June 2023: Acquired Panthronics, a fabless company specializing in near-field communication (NFC) wireless products for payment, IoT, asset tracking, smart meters, and wireless charging.
