Editing Renesas Electronics (section)

{{Short description|Japanese semiconductor manufacturer}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Renesas Electronics Corporation
| native_name = ルネサス エレクトロニクス株式会社
| logo = Renesas Electronics logo.svg
| logo_upright = 1.2
| type = [[Public company|Public]]
| traded_as = {{Unbulleted list|{{TYO|6723}}|[[Nikkei 225]] component}}
| predecessor = [[NEC]] Electronics, Renesas Technology (chip units of [[Hitachi]] and [[Mitsubishi Electric|Mitsubishi]])
| key_people = Hidetoshi Shibata (Representative Director, ([[President (corporate title)|president]] and [[Chief executive officer|CEO]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.renesas.com/eu/en/about/executive-team|title=Executive Team|publisher=Renesas Electronics Corporation|date=Jan 2022|access-date=2022-01-21}}</ref>
| industry = [[Semiconductor industry|Semiconductor]]
| products = [[Semiconductor]]s
| revenue = {{decrease}} {{JPY|1348.5 billion|link=yes}} (2024)<ref name=AR>{{cite report |url=https://www.renesas.com/en/document/rep/financial-report-2024?r=1320481}}</ref>
| operating_income = {{decrease}} {{JPY|397.9 billion}} (2024)<ref name=AR />
| net_income = {{decrease}} {{JPY|360.4 billion}} (2024)<ref name=AR />
| assets = {{increase}} {{JPY|4.49 trillion}} (2024)<ref name=AR />
| equity = {{increase}} {{JPY|2.54 trillion}} (2024)<ref name=AR />
| num_employees = 22,711 ({{as of|2024|12|31|lc=y|df=US}})<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.renesas.com/en/about/profile |title=Corporate Outline &#124; Renesas }}</ref>
| foundation = 2002 as NEC Electronics
2010 as Renesas Electronics
| location_city = [[Tokyo]]
| location_country = Japan
| website = {{URL|https://www.renesas.com/en|renesas.com}}
}}
{{Nihongo|'''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 Electric|Mitsubishi]] excluding their [[dynamic random-access memory]] (DRAM) businesses,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=Apr 1, 2003|title=Hitachi and Mitsubishi Combine to form Renesas Technology, the World's Largest Microcontroller Company!|url=http://microcontroller.com/news/Renesas_tech.asp|access-date=2021-01-16|website=Microcontroller.com}}</ref> to which [[NEC]] Electronics merged in 2010, resulting in a minor change in the corporate name and logo to as it is now.<ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=|title=NEC Electronics and Renesas agree on merger|work=[[The Financial Times]]|url=https://www.ft.com/content/87c3cc6a-a2a5-11de-ae7e-00144feabdc0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/87c3cc6a-a2a5-11de-ae7e-00144feabdc0 |archive-date=2022-12-10 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=}}</ref>

In the 2000s to early 2010s, Renesas had been one of the six largest [[Semiconductor industry|semiconductor companies]] in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Top25: Semiconductor suppliers in 2010 |url=https://evertiq.com/design/27052 |access-date=2021-01-17 |website=evertiq.com |language=en}}</ref> 

Ranked 16th in semiconductor company sales in 2023, Renesas holds the 2nd highest sales in Japan as of 2024. In the automotive MCU market share rankings, Renesas ranked second, following Infineon Technologies (as of 2024). In the overall MCU market share rankings, it ranks third, following NXP Semiconductors and Infineon Technologies (as of 2024).

The brand Renesas is a contraction of "Renaissance Semiconductor for Advanced Solutions".<ref name=":0" />