Renesas Technology

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Renesas Technology Corporation
Type	Corporation
Founded	April 1, 2003
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Satoru Ito, CEO
Industry	Semiconductor
Revenue	906.0 billion yen (2005)
Employees	26,200
Website	www.renesas.com

Renesas Technology Corporation (ルネサス テクノロジ, Renesas Technology Corporation^?) is a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer. It is based in Tokyo and has manufacturing, design and sales operations in around 20 countries with about 26,200 employees worldwide. The product range comprises of semiconductor components, such as

• system LSIs
  • microcomputers/microcontrollers (incl. smartcards)
  • ASICs
  • logic ICs
  • analog ICs
• discrete devices (diodes, power MOSFETs, thyristors and triacs, transistors)
• memory ICs (Flash, SRAM, TTRAM)

Renesas Technology is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders.

Renesas Technology was established April 1, 2003 as a joint venture of Hitachi, Ltd. (55%) and Mitsubishi Electric (45%).

[edit] See also

• SuperH microprocessors
• M32R microprocessors
• M16C microcontrollers
• H8 Family of microcontrollers

[edit] External link

• Renesas Technology Europe Website

Development Tools for complete Renesas platform

• http://www.kpitgnutools.com, Official free Toolchains with Support