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27-485: The RTX2010 , manufactured by Intersil , is a radiation hardened stack machine microprocessor which has been used in numerous spacecraft . It is a two-stack machine , each stack 256 words deep, that supports direct execution of Forth . Subroutine calls and returns only take one processor cycle and it also has a very low and consistent interrupt latency of only four processor cycles, which lends it well to realtime applications . In 1983, Chuck Moore implemented

54-500: A self-driving concept car at a global developer conference, stating that it will start delivering a new line of products for self-driving cars in December 2017, as it takes on global giants such as Intel . The new technology acts as an onboard nerve center, coordinating and controlling vehicle functions. In September 2018, Renesas announced that it has agreed to buy Integrated Device Technology for $ 6.7 billion. The acquisition

81-457: A processor for his programming language Forth as a gate array. As Forth can be considered a dual stack virtual machine, he made the processor, Novix N4000 (later renamed NC4016), as a dual-stack machine . In 1988, an improved processor was sold to Harris Semiconductor , who marketed it for space applications as the RTX2000. Intersil The original Intersil, Inc. was founded in 1967 by

108-457: 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, to which NEC Electronics merged in 2010, resulting in a minor change in the corporate name and logo to as it is now. In

135-735: Is the PRISM line of Wi-Fi hardware: that group of products was sold to GlobespanVirata in 2003, and maintained by Conexant . Intersil is the manufacturer of the RCA (CDP)1802 microprocessor (also known as RCA COSMAC), a CPU traditionally used in space applications. In the 2000s, Intersil established market leadership in Vcore power management for PCs, switching and buck boost regulators for industrial and consumer power systems, and radiation hardened analog and power ICs for military and commercial applications. The company, under CEO Dave Bell, then began

162-496: The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and flooding in Thailand . In 2012, the company, which had about 50 thousand employees of manufacturing, design and sales operations in about 20 countries in 2011, decided to restructure its business, including the sale and consolidation of its Japanese domestic plants, to become profitable. In December 2012, INCJ , a Japanese public-private fund, and several key clients decided to invest in

189-564: The 2000s to early 2010s, Renesas had been one of the six largest semiconductor companies in the world. As of 2022, it is the world's third-largest automotive semiconductor company and the largest microcontroller supplier. 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". Renesas Electronics started operation in April 2010, through

216-858: The 2022 “Outstanding Asia-Pacific Semiconductor Company Award” by Global Semiconductor Alliance. In April 2023, Renesas was included in the 225 stocks that compose the Nikkei Stock Average. In June 2023, Renesas completed the acquisition of Panthronics AG, an Austrian fabless semiconductor company specializing in high-performance wireless products. In July 2023, Renesas announced a 10 year silicon carbide wafer supply agreement with Wolfspeed . In January 2024, Renesas agreed to acquire gallium nitride -chip maker Transphorm for $ 339 million. In February 2024, Renesas announced that it had reached an agreement to buy printed circuit board design software company Altium for $ 5.9 billion. In June 2024, Renesas announced that it completed

243-469: The Acquisition of Transphorm . In August 2024, Renesas announced that it completed the Acquisition of printed circuit board design software company Altium . RL78 is the family name for a range of 16-bit microcontrollers. These were the first new MCU to emerge from the new Renesas Electronics company after the merger of NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology. These Microcontrollers incorporate

270-504: The H family and the MC family, launched by Hitachi and Mitsubishi respectively. The RX family was launched in 2009 by Renesas Technology with the first product range designated the RX600 series and targeting applications such as metering, motor control, human–machine interfaces (HMI), networking, and industrial automation. Since 2009 this MCU family range has been enlarged with a smaller variant

297-478: The Naka Factory. In August 2021, Renesas completed the acquisition of Dialog Semiconductor Plc. In December 2021, Renesas also completed the acquisition of Celeno Communications. In May 2022 Renesas announced the re-opening of its "Kofu" Fab which will utilize the 300mm geometry for the fabrication of power semiconductors. The facility is scheduled to be online in 2024. In July 2022, Renesas completed

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324-458: The RX200 series and also through enhanced performance versions. The RA, an acronym for Renesas Advanced, is the family name for a range of 32-bit microcontrollers with Arm Cortex processor cores. The RA family's key features are the stronger embedded security, high-performance, and CoreMark ultra-low power operation. It also has a comprehensive partner ecosystem and Flexible Software Package for

351-560: The Swiss physicist Jean Hoerni to develop digital watch Integrated Circuits (ICs). The European subsidiary Eurosil was originally partially funded by SSIH, a Swiss watch company. Later-on, Intersil had a development contract with the Japanese company Daini Seikosha and became supplier of low-voltage CMOS watch ICs for Seiko . When microprocessors emerged to the market in the 1970s, Intersil participated with its 12-bit IM6100 , which

378-507: The acquisition of Reality Analytics, Inc. Adding additional resources for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. In October 2022, Renesas completed the acquisition of Steradian Semiconductors Private Limited, a fabless semiconductor company. In September 2022, Renesas signed a strategic partnership with VinFast from Vietnam to announce expanding agreement of automotive technology development of electric vehicles (EVs) and delivery of system components. In December 2022, Renesas won

405-604: The allotment of third-party shares to the nine investors completed in September 2013, INCJ became the largest shareholder in the company. Renesas announced its new business direction and issued its corporate presentation titled "Reforming Renesas” in October 2013. In the fiscal year ended in March 2014, Renesas recorded its first ever net profit since it started operation as Renesas Electronics Corporation in 2010. In July 2014,

432-658: The company's board of directors removed Dave Bell and began a search for a new CEO. In March 2013, the board appointed Necip Sayiner, the architect of Silicon Labs ' turnaround, as CEO. Sayiner concentrated the company's efforts on power management and select target markets. The company was able to return to profitability in 2013 and in early 2014 re-launched as a power management company, with products to improve power efficiency, extend battery life and reduce size. Japanese semiconductor company Renesas acquired Intersil on February 24, 2017. Intersil develops and markets power management and analog technology for applications in

459-469: The company. Through the investment, Renesas aimed to secure 150 billion yen as fresh capital by September 2013 and make use of it for investment in development of the microcontroller and analog and power chips for automotive and industrial uses, plant improvements, and corporate acquisitions. In January 2013, Renesas transferred some of its back-end plants to J-Devices. In September 2013, Broadcom acquired most of Renesas Mobile Communication. With

486-656: The core features of the NEC 78K0R (150 nm MF2 flash process) and many familiar peripherals from legacy Renesas R8C microcontrollers. The RL78 core variants include the S1, S2, and S3 type cores which evolved from the NEC 78K0R core. The basic S1 core support 74 instructions, the S2 core adds register banking and supports 75 instructions, while the S3 core adds an on-chip multiplier / divider / multiple-accumulate and supports 81 instructions. The RL78

513-436: The expansion of a catalog analog business. The company also completed a series of acquisitions, two of which are still part of the portfolio, Zilker Labs digital power devices and Techwell automotive and security and surveillance products. In May 2002, Intersil Corp. acquired Elantec Semiconductor. In March 2004,  Intersil Corp. acquired analog chipmaker Xicor Inc. for about $ 529 million. In 2012, with revenue in decline,

540-525: The industrial, infrastructure, mobile, automotive and aerospace markets. The company supplies power integrated circuits including battery management, computing power, display power, regulators and controllers and power modules; as well as analog components such as amplifiers and buffers, proximity and light sensors, data converters, timing products, optoelectronics and interface products. Renesas Renesas Electronics Corporation ( ルネサス エレクトロニクス株式会社 , Runesasu Erekutoronikusu Kabushiki Gaisha )

567-616: The integration of NEC Electronics , established in November 2002 as a spin-off of the semiconductor operations of NEC with the exception of the DRAM business, and Renesas Technology established on April 1, 2003, the non-DRAM chip joint venture of Hitachi and Mitsubishi , with their ownership percentage of 55 and 45 in order. The DRAM businesses of the three had become part of Elpida Memory , which went bankrupt in 2012 before being acquired by Micron Technology . A basic agreement to merge

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594-417: The subsidiary Renesas Mobile Communication was consolidated, after the company had decided to withdraw from the 4G wireless business. In September 2014, the sale of the display driver IC unit of Renesas to Synaptics was completed. In September 2016, Renesas announced that it would acquire Intersil for $ 3.2 billion. In February 2017, Renesas completed the acquisition. In April 2017, Renesas unveiled

621-461: Was completed in March 2019. In 2020, Renesas announced its plans to wind down its production of diodes and the compound device. In February 2021, Renesas announced that it has agreed to buy Dialog Semiconductor for $ 5.9 billion. The acquisition was completed in September 2021. In March 2021, a fire at the Naka Factory owned by a subsidiary of Renesas caused significant damage to equipment. On April 17, 2022, Renesas restarted its production at

648-526: Was created with the largest IPO in American semiconductor industry history. The second Intersil Corporation is a different company from the original Intersil, Inc. Next to digital circuits like microprocessors and memories like the 1k-bit CMOS RAM IM6508 and CMOS EPROMS IM6604/IM6654 Intersil designed famous analogue ICs like the ICL8038 waveform generator. A creation of Intersil (as Harris Semiconductor)

675-517: Was developed to address extremely low power but highly integrated microcontroller applications, to this end the core offered a novel low power mode of operation called “snooze mode” where the ADC or serial interface can be programmed to meet specific conditions to wake the device from the extreme low power STOP mode of 0.52uA. The RX, an acronym for Renesas Xtreme, is the family name for a range of 32-bit microcontrollers developed by Renesas, as opposed to

702-492: Was reached by April 2010 and materialized on the first day, forming the fourth largest semiconductor company by revenue according to an estimation from iSuppli . In December 2010, Renesas Mobile Corporation (RMC) was created by integrating the Mobile Multimedia Business Unit of Renesas with the acquired Nokia Wireless Modem Business Unit . In 2011, Renesas Electronics was adversely affected by

729-597: Was the first microprocessor produced in CMOS technology and emulated the PDP-8 instruction set. In 1988, Intersil was taken over by Harris Semiconductor , which had offered the IM6100 as second source . Harris combined these activities with the semiconductor divisions of Radiation Incorporated, General Electric and RCA they had taken over before. In 1999 Harris spun off its entire semiconductor division and Intersil Corporation

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