About Renesas Electronics
Renesas Electronics makes microcontrollers, system-on-chip products, analog and power devices, with a large presence in automotive and industrial markets and a growing range of edge AI processors. It began operating in April 2010 when NEC Electronics absorbed Renesas Technology and took the Renesas name. Renesas Technology had itself been formed in 2003 from the semiconductor divisions of Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Renesas Electronics was founded in 2010 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. It is listed under ASICs, AI Accelerators, Edge Computing, CPUs & RISC-V. Its shares trade as 6723.T on TSE.
Compute Technologies
- ASICs
- AI Accelerators
- Edge Computing
What Renesas Electronics works on
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.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
Edge Computing
Edge computing means processing data close to where it is produced, on a device or a nearby server, instead of sending everything to a distant cloud data center. In chip terms, edge processors are small, low-power chips that run software and AI models inside phones, cameras, cars and sensors.
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