Renesas Electronics

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Renesas Electronics Corporation

Native name	ルネサス エレクトロニクス株式会社
Company type	Public (KK)
Traded as	TYO: 6723 Nikkei 225 component
Industry	Semiconductor
Predecessor	NEC Electronics, Renesas Technology (chip units of Hitachi and Mitsubishi)
Founded	November 1, 2002; 21 years ago (2002-11-01) as Renesas Technology April 1, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-04-01) as Renesas Electronics
Headquarters	Tokyo , Japan
Key people	Hidetoshi Shibata (Representative Director, President and CEO)[1]
Products	Semiconductors
Revenue	¥1,500.9 billion (2022)[2]
Operating income	¥424.1 billion (2022)[2]
Net income	¥256.6 billion (2022)[2]
Total assets	¥2.81 trillion (2022)[2]
Total equity	¥1.54 trillion (2022)[2]
Number of employees	21,017 (as of December 31, 2022[update])[3]
Website	renesas.com

Renesas Electronics Corporation (ルネサス エレクトロニクス株式会社, Runesasu Erekutoronikusu Kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, initially incorporated in 2002 as Renesas Technology, the consolidated entity of the semiconductor units of Hitachi and Mitsubishi excluding their dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) businesses,^[4] to which NEC Electronics merged in 2010, resulting in a minor change in the corporate name and logo to as it is now.^[5]

In the 2000s to early 2010s, Renesas had been one of the six largest semiconductor companies in the world.^[6] As of 2022, it is the world's third-largest automotive semiconductor company and the largest microcontroller supplier.^[7] The company also has presences in the markets of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, memory devices, and SoCs.

The brand Renesas is a contraction of "Renaissance Semiconductor for Advanced Solutions".^[4]