About Mitsubishi Electric Semiconductors
This record covers the semiconductor and device business of Mitsubishi Electric, a large Japanese industrial group, rather than a separate company. It makes power modules, including silicon carbide and IGBT types that switch high currents in trains, vehicles and factories, plus optical communication devices, laser diodes and high-frequency chips. These are power and communications parts, not compute processors. Mitsubishi Electric was founded in Tokyo in 1921 and holds a 25.05 percent stake in Renesas Electronics according to its Wikipedia entry.
Mitsubishi Electric Semiconductors was founded in 1921 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. It is listed under Custom Silicon, ASICs. Its shares trade as 6503.T on TSE.
Compute Technologies
- Power Modules
- IGBTs
- SiC
What Mitsubishi Electric Semiconductors works on
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
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