Renesas Electronics Corporation 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 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 the 2000s to early 2010s, Renesas had been one of the six largest semiconductor companies in the world. 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. In the overall MCU market share rankings, it ranks third, following NXP Semiconductors and Infineon Technologies. The brand Renesas is a contraction of "Renaissance Semiconductor for Advanced Solutions". Wikipedia