104 news items tagged Renesas
Renesas reportedly seeking capacity support from Taiwan foundries
Wednesday 31 March 2021Renesas Electronics is reportedly seeking capacity support from TSMC and other Taiwan-based foundries to fill its supply shortfall caused by the suspension of its fire-damaged fab.
Lead times for analog chips prolonged
Monday 29 March 2021Delivery lead times for analog chips including MCU and power MOSFET chips have been further extended, which will continue to boost the chip prices in the second quarter of 2021, according...
Highlights of the day: Fire at Renesas may undermine IC supply
Tuesday 23 March 2021Renesas saw one of its plants in northern Japan struck by fire and the incident could lead to a further tightening of...
Automotive PCB shipments dented by worsening shortages of car chips
Tuesday 23 March 2021Global automotive chips shortages worsened by a recent fire damaging Renesas' plant in northern Japan are casting clouds over normal shipments at Taiwan's automotive PCB vendors as...
PTI to offer Renesas additional backend capacity support
Tuesday 23 March 2021Backend house Powertech Technology (PTI) will provide automotive chips vendor Renesas Electronics with additional capacity support starting April, as the IDM's backend bumping capacity...
Fire at Renesas fab to further constrain auto IC supply
Tuesday 23 March 2021A recent fire that struck one of Renesas' plants in Japan may lead to a further tightening in the world's available production capacity for automotive chips, according to industry...
IDMs may evaluate more outsourcing
Tuesday 23 February 2021IDM vendors may consider outsourcing more of their production starting 2022, with Taiwan-based contract chipmakers being among the beneficiaries, according to industry sources.
Renesas in talks to acquire Dialog
Monday 8 February 2021Renesas Electronics has confirmed it is in talks to acquire Dialog Semiconductor.
Renesas, Sequans expand collaboration on 5G
Friday 8 January 2021Renesas Electronics and Sequans Communications have jointly announced an expansion of their collaboration to include development of 5G modules based on the latter's upcoming Taurus...
Renesas seeking support from Taiwan OSAT for auto components
Tuesday 8 December 2020Japan-based IDM Renesas Electronics has been aggressively seeking support from its backend partners in Taiwan for next year to meet increasing demand for automotive MCUs and power...
China to have 22% of foundry market in 2020, says IC Insights
Wednesday 14 October 2020Despite the COVID-19 shutdown of the Chinese economy earlier this year, China's share of the pure-play foundry market is forecast to be 22% in 2020, 17pp higher than it registered...
Renesas selects Andes RISC-V 32-bit CPU cores for ASSP
Tuesday 6 October 2020Renesas Electronics has announced a technology IP cooperation with Taiwan-based Andes Technology, a supplier of RISC-V based embedded CPU cores and associated SoC development environment...
Renesas collaborates with Novatek on surveillance camera reference design
Thursday 20 August 2020Renesas Electronics has introduced an ultra-high-definition (UHD) surveillance camera reference design developed in collaboration with Novatek Microelectronics and designed by Systemtec...
Dialog announces compatibility of octal SPI NOR flash with Renesas MPU
Friday 14 August 2020Dialog Semiconductor has announced that its EcoXiP octal xSPI non-volatile memory (NVM), which was added to Dialog's portfolio through its recent acquisition of Adesto Technologies,...
GaN and SiC power semiconductor market evolving, says Omdia
Tuesday 28 July 2020The emerging market for silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors is rapidly evolving from a startup-dominated business to one led by large-established...
Foundries see cutback in orders for auto chips
Monday 29 June 2020TSMC and other pure-play foundries have seen their mature process capacity utilization rates decline, due mainly to a substantial cutback in orders for automotive electronics applications,...
TI remains top analog IC supplier
Friday 29 May 2020With analog sales of US$10.2 billion and a 19% market share, Texas Instruments held a firm grip on its position as the leading supplier of analog devices in 2019, according to IC...
100 IC wafer fabs closed or repurposed since 2009, says IC Insights
Monday 30 March 2020Over the past decade, the IC industry has been paring down its older capacity as manufacturers have consolidated or transitioned to the fab-lite or fabless business models, according...
Macronix flash memory implemented in Renesas embedded AI solutions
Thursday 3 October 2019Macronix International has announced its secure flash memory is adopted for Renesas Electronics' embedded artificial intelligence solutions that use Arm-based processors for a range...
Renesas says next-generation AI chips achieves processing performance of 8.8 TOPS/W
Tuesday 18 June 2019Renesas Electronics has announced it has developed an AI accelerator that performs CNN (convolutional neural network) processing at high speeds and low power to move towards the next...
Renesas migration to fab-lite model to benefit Taiwan OSAT firms
Thursday 18 April 2019Renesas is reportedly moving toward a fab-lite business model by temporarily shutting down some frontend and backend fabs, with its Taiwan-based OSAT partners including ASE, Ardentec,...
Ardentec to expand test services for automotive chips
Tuesday 5 March 2019Taiwan-based IC test solutions provider Ardentec has enjoyed a ramp-up of orders for automotive MCUs, and is vying for new orders for testing Internet of Vehicles (IoV) communication...
Taiwan maintains largest share of global IC wafer fab capacity, says IC Insights
Thursday 14 February 2019Taiwan led all regions/countries in wafer capacity with 21.8% share, a slight increase from 21.3% in 2017, according to IC Insights. Taiwan first became the global wafer capacity...
Taiwan firms eyeing automotive MOSFET processing orders from IDMs
Friday 5 October 2018As international IDMs are moving at full throttles to develop lucrative high-voltage automotive MOSFETs, Taiwan mid-end and back-end supply chain players are gearing up to win long-term...
Macronix RWW flash adopted by Renesas automotive instrument cluster RH850/D1M1A MCU
Tuesday 7 August 2018Macronix International has announced that Renesas Electronics has implemented dedicated octa peripheral interface to support Macronix memory devices with serial multi I/O. Among these...
- Toyota and Nissan plan production cut from Renesas fire (Mar 30) - Nikkei Electronics Asia
- Renesas says normal production at fire-hit chip plant to take 100-120 days (Mar 30) - Reuters
- Japan urges support for fire-hit Renesas as global chip woes deepen (Mar 24) - Reuters
- Automotive chip supplies to be hurt by Renesas fire, CEO says (Mar 21) - Reuters
- Renesas halts plant due to fire (Mar 20) - Nikkei Electronics Asia
- Carmakers chip shortages may last into late 2021, Renesas says (Mar 11) - Bloomberg
- Chipmaker Renesas and others assess damage from recent quake (Feb 17) - Nikkei Electronics Asia
- Renesas moves more automotive chip production in-house (Jan 29) - Nikkei Asian Review