Innovation
Driving Innovation to Achieve the 2035 Aspiration
Renesas is driving innovation through semiconductor technologies and solutions to achieve its 2035 Aspiration and contribute to a sustainable society.
Guided by its purpose, “To Make Our Lives Easier,” Renesas is advancing technological innovation in key focus areas—AI, Power, Automotive, and Industrial.
These efforts enhance energy efficiency, ensure safety, and support the evolution of social infrastructure.
Renesas’s innovation initiatives form the core of its sustainability strategy, aiming to simultaneously reduce environmental impact and create social value. In particular, the company is contributing to the transition to a decarbonized society through low-power design, power semiconductors that enable electrification and energy savings, and advanced AI-driven intelligent control and optimization technologies.
Renesas’ Technological Innovation
Renesas has identified four key technologies: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Safety & Security, Digital & Analog & Power Solution, and Cloud Native.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI is an important technology for enhancing computing power to meet the emerging social needs of an automated, data-centric world.
- Safety & Security: It is the foundation of mission-critical applications that realize a safe and secure society.
- Digital & Analog & Power Solution: As automation and IoT advance various sensor technologies and human interfaces, Digital & Analog & Power Solution enable more optimized and integrated implementations in which the brain (digital) controls the nerves (analog).
- Cloud Native: It is a technology that uses low-latency real-time control and communication to facilitate cloud services on the end-point devices. Embedded systems become valuable by connecting to the cloud and running cloud services.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Renesas was one of the first semiconductor suppliers to introduce flexible, scalable embedded artificial intelligence (e-AI) into the end-point devices. We are providing intelligence to the end-point devices in order to realize a safe and secure lifestyle and an environmentally friendly smart society.
Energy-Efficient Computing with AI
Renesas is a proven provider of energy-efficient AI computing solutions for automotive and industrial applications.
In the automotive field, our company's R-Car SoC, which enables AI implementation with a stereo front camera, employs a heterogeneous architecture that enables energy-efficient, state-of-the-art deep learning while balancing peak performance. Renesas provides solutions for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Automated Driving (AD) to enable flexible design for Tier 1 and OEMs.
In the industrial sector, RZ/V series MPUs address real-time AI processing needs for human and object recognition in applications such as surveillance cameras, product scanners, and point-of-sale (POS) terminal cameras. The series features our company's unique Visual Optimization AI Accelerator, Dynamic Reconfigurable Processors (DRP-AI). Because DRP-AI is dynamically reconfigurable, it can flexibly meet requirements such as face recognition, context recognition, and object recognition as a multimodal AI.
Our company also provides DRP-AI Translator, a dedicated development tool that simplifies the implementation of learned AI models. Examples of AI applications based on object recognition include smart shopping cart systems that perform automatic tabulation, industrial robots to work safely with humans, and medical cameras that support physician diagnosis.
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Safety & Security
Renesas meets the growing need for safety and security in connected products. Our company's safety and security technologies are designed to meet the industry's highest ISO/IEC reliability and performance standards, providing solutions that help our customers feel more secure in a world where everything is virtual.
Building "Root of Trust" with Safety and Security Technologies
With billions of connected devices worldwide and growing demand for services, there is a huge demand for robust safety and security. From road, car, home safety, and product from manufacturing to consumption, connected devices improve the way we work and live by providing valuable measurement data. Our company uses safety and security technologies to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data and to reduce the risk of breakdowns and cybersecurity. We provide comprehensive functional safety and security support for mission-critical applications to help our customers build robust systems.
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Our company provides robust safety and security for many industries, including IoT, factory and building automation, consumer electronics, and robotics. In addition to supporting application-specific safety standards such as IEC61508, we have established a "Root of Trust" to meet the needs of the target business and market and provide security solutions based on it.
As one of the world's leading automotive semiconductor suppliers, our company has actively participated in the ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434 working groups and led the development of functional safety and security technologies for automotive systems. Leveraging our automobile-related experience and core competencies, we are actively proposing new system solutions that can meet our customers' functional safety and security needs.
Digital & Analog & Power Solution
Renesas offers an attractive solution that maximizes system efficiency and performance while reducing power consumption, number of components, and BOM costs through the synergy of its complementary product portfolio of analog + power + embedded processing. These comprehensive systems solutions reduce your time to design and commercialize and ultimately contribute to sustainable development and reduced environmental impact worldwide.
Easy-to-Use, One-Stop Solutions
To date, Renesas has developed more than 390 winning combinations, and the number continues to grow every day. Customers can use these attractive product combinations to accelerate development schedules and accelerate time-to-market. These product portfolio combinations focus on a variety of applications, including industry, infrastructure, automotive, and consumer industries, providing a variety of solutions to many customers and partners around the world. Renesas' Winning Combinations help reduce the number of components used on Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) and reduce our customers’ development costs and timeframes.
Technologies and Products Aimed at Improving Energy Efficiency
“Sustainability Strategy 2.0,” launched in April 2025, focuses on key themes such as climate change mitigation, energy management, supply chain transparency, data privacy, cybersecurity, risk management, and diversity & inclusion. Among our four core technology areas, we are particularly advancing R&D to improve energy efficiency in the digital and analog & power solutions domains.
In the digital domain, we contribute to reducing power consumption in devices by offering ultra-low power microcontrollers (such as RA4C1, RA0L1, and RL78/L23) and a low-power, automotive-grade Bluetooth LE–enabled SoC. In the analog & power domain, we are strengthening the development of GaN power semiconductors and offering solutions including a GaN bidirectional switch for applications like solar inverters, and a GaN power supply solution supporting 500W power delivery.
Through these initiatives, we deliver solutions that go beyond improving the energy efficiency of individual devices, contributing to lower power consumption in real-world use.
An Integrated Platform for Electronics Development: Renesas 365
Renesas has begun general availability of “Renesas 365,” a platform that integrates all stages of electronics development in the cloud. This platform is the industry’s first integrated solution that unifies device selection, model-based system design, initial verification, and lifecycle management into a single environment.
By consolidating previously fragmented tools and data, Renesas 365 enables co-design of hardware and software, as well as seamless collaboration across teams. As an initial step, more than 550 RA microcontroller devices have been integrated into the platform, enabling rapid and optimized device selection based on system requirements through AI and model-based design support.
This approach helps reduce rework in later development stages, accelerating time to market and improving development efficiency. In addition, features such as OTA-based device management and an open ecosystem allow for flexible system design and scalability, supporting next-generation software-defined development.
Cloud Native
Cloud Native technology enables cloud services to run smoothly on endpoint devices. To enable Cloud Native embedded devices, system solutions must incorporate advanced software and IT technologies. Renesas is working with cloud providers in a variety of industries to develop cloud-specific core technologies such as safety, security, connectivity, and human machine interface (HMI), and is working on partnerships to do so.
Innovation through Collaboration
Renesas provides a variety of embedded systems and IoT cloud solutions in collaboration with cloud service partners. The published source code includes a middleware stack that supports secure connections with major cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and third-party MQTT brokers. Our company will continue to work closely with its cloud services partners to provide optimal solutions for your systems.
Renesas Partner Program
Renesas offers the Renesas Partner Program, providing information on system and solution partners across a wide range of domains to help customers make optimal use of Renesas products. By combining Renesas technologies with the diverse services offered by our partners, we support customers in designing, building, and deploying their systems with confidence.
Innovation Focus 1 (ISSCC 2026)
Digital Processing and Circuit Techniques:
"A 3nm, 400TOPS, 1080k DMIPS SoC with Chiplet Support for ASIL D Automotive Cross-Domain Applications"
(S. Machida, K. Fukuoka, T. Onda, N. Yada, H. Nakano, S. Yamanaka, H. V. Cao, Y. Hara, T. Irita, K. Wakahara, C. Cordoba, T. Kamei, Y. Shimazaki / Renesas Electronics, Tokyo, Japan /Renesas Design Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam / Renesas Electronics Europe, Paris, France)
DRAM, SRAM, and Non-Volatile Memories:
"A 3nm 0.167fJ/b 5.27Mb/mm2 Configurable TCAM with Macro-Wise Pipelined Search Methods for Automotive Applications"
(S. Nagata, Y. Sawada, K. Takiguchi, M. Morimoto, S. Tanaka, N. Fujita, T. Miura, D. Nakamura, T. Ito / Renesas Electronics, Tokyo, Japan)