Renesas announced the following changes to its Members of the Board and Corporate Officers, which were approved at a meeting of the Board of Directors on February 24, 2011. The company also announced changes in its organizational structure to accelerate the three-pronged business strategy announced July 2010.

Renesas Electronics and its subsidiary today announced the first release of the R-Car series of systems-on-chip (SoCs), the R-Car M1 series, offering low power consumption for next-generation dashboard-mounted car navigation systems and supporting advanced human machine interfaces (HMI).

Renesas and Green Hills Software announced collaboration to jointly develop basic software supporting CPU virtualization technology suitable for real-time control applications as well as a software development environment.

Renesas Electronics and its subsidiary, Renesas Mobile Corporation, an innovative supplier of advanced cellular semiconductor solutions and platforms, today announced the availability of the high performance 3D mobile platform, the MP5225, which builds on Renesas Mobile’s vision of delivering an unrivalled connected experience. The new mobile platform integrates Renesas Mobile’s industry reference LTE triple-mode modem platform, the SP2531, w...

Renesas Mobile Corporation and Nomovok Ltd. will showcase at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011 the first MeeGo 1.1 implementation on Renesas Mobile’s mobile application processor, the SH-Mobile APE4. The demonstration by Nomovok can be viewed at the Nokia Qt stand in Hall 1 during the show.

Renesas Mobile Corporation, an innovative supplier of advanced cellular semiconductor solutions and platforms, today announced that it will exhibit the industry’s first mobile application processor system-on-chip (SoC), the SH-Mobile APE5R, featuring Imagination Technologies’ POWERVR SGX MP™ (multi-processor) graphics at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011. Blazingly fast, the SH-Mobile APE5R delivers more than five times the graphics performa...

Renesas Mobile Corporation, an innovative supplier of advanced cellular semiconductor solutions and platforms, today announced an end-to-end Long Term Evolution (LTE) demonstration, using the 1800 Megahertz (MHz) spectrum, together with Nokia Siemens Networks at Mobile World Congress 2011 from February 14-17, 2011.

Renesas Electronics and its subsidiary, Renesas Mobile Corporation today announced the availability of its LTE triple-mode modem platform, the SP2531. The new platform integrates a single-chip triple-mode modem baseband processor that supports LTE/HSPA+/GSM, RF transceiver ICs, high power amplifiers, power management devices and related software.

Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of the R8C/3NT group of microcontrollers (MCUs) that feature an industry-leading small package, built-in flash memory and touch key functions. The new MCUs are suitable for products such as smartphones, mobile phones, e-book readers, digital cameras, and handheld game consoles.

Renesas announced the development of an optical-coupled metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), the PS7901D-1A, that achieves complete electrical isolation within the package by using light for signal transmission.

Renesas introduced two new additions to its 16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) within the R8C/Lx Series. The new R8C/LAxA product groups offer strong peripheral functions and minimum display capability along with ultra-low power consumption that is ranked among the best in the industry. The R8C/LA3A and LA5A MCUs comprise a total of two groups with 32 pins and 52 pins integrating up to 64 kilobytes (KB) of programmable flash memory. Sample shipments ...

Renesas today announced the availability of its new control IC (part number µPD168891) for automotive light emitting diode (LED) headlights. The main features of the µPD168891 IC are (1) an integrated current-control function for constant-current drive of LEDs as well as a pre-driver function for driving external metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs); (2) integrated protection functions essential for automotive applicati...

Renesas announced the availability of its ultralow-noise heterojunction field effect transistor (FET) product, the NE3520S03, which features the industry-leading low noise characteristics for satellite broadcast reception applications.

Renesas today announced the availability of a family of 576-megabit (Mb) low-latency DRAM products (μPD48576109, μPD48576118, μPD48576209, μPD48576218, and μPD48576236) for network equipment. The 576Mb low-latency DRAM products offer doubled memory capacity, 25 percent improved random cycle performance for high-speed reading and writing of data, 33 percent faster operating frequency, and over 10 percent reduction in power...

Renesas introduced today 32 new N-channel power metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) with voltage tolerances of 40 and 55 volts (V). The new power MOSFETs include the NP75N04YUK device, featuring a compact HSON package with one-half the mounting area of the existing TO-252 package and the ability to handle current flows of up to 75 amperes (A).

Renesas Dx4 - Micro-controller family for automotive dashboards. This video shows the impressive capabilities of the all new Renesas DP4-H device. It is an example implementation of a virtual dashboard in which all car information and gauges are displayed on two TFT displays.

Renesas today announced the availability of a new system-on-chip (SoC), the CE150, for smartphones and high-end mobile phones. The CE150 delivers industry-leading resolution of 16 megapixels and the ability to capture full-HD video (1920 × 1080 pixels).

Renesas today announced the availability of a new high-voltage N-channel power metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistor (MOSFET) product, the RJK60S5DPK, for power supply units. The new power MOSFET delivers high efficiency and low power consumption for PC servers, communication base stations, and solar power generation systems.

Renesas Launches SH7239. SuperH based microcontroller aimed at the DSP market space. Targeting, motor control, solar inverter, frequency inverter and industrial drives applications, this SH2A based microcontroller delivers extremely high performance (320DMIPS) running directly from the flash, no tricks, no wait states just high performance.

Renesas Electronics today announced the release of its 16 new 16-bit microcontrollers within the R8C/Lx Series. The new R8C/L3xM product groups provide the industry’s most stable accuracy on the high-speed on-chip oscillator along with ultra-low power consumption ranked among the best in the industry. The R8C/L3xM MCUs will comprise a total of four groups ranging from 52 to 100 pins with up to 128 kilobytes (KB) of programmable flash memory. S...