Renesas

Renesas Electronics began operations in April 2010 following the merger of NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology. NEC Electronics, which had been established in November 2002, was the surviving legal entity and was renamed Renesas Electronics Corporation when the merger took effect. Renesas Technology had been formed in 2003 by combining the non-DRAM semiconductor operations of Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric. After severe operational and financial difficulties in the early 2010s, Renesas underwent restructuring backed by the state-supported Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), and later expanded through acquisitions including Intersil, Integrated Device Technology (IDT), Dialog Semiconductor and Altium.