To bring focus onto a pair of major announcmeents for Renesas, the company hosted a virtual press conference to announce its new single- and dual-core MCUs for Edge AI, and new GaN FETs for high-density power conversion in AI data centers, industrial and charging systems.

Wirral, United Kingdom. LDRA publicized it joined both the Renesas Ready Partner Network and the R-Car Consortium. The relationship extends LDRA's support to seamlessly incorporate system development tools utilizing Renesas R-Car system on a chip (SoCs), microprocessors (MPUs), and microcontrollers (MCUs) that are required to be in full compliance with industry-wide functional safety and cybersecurity standards.

Renesas Electronics Corporation and Altium recently announced the 2026 expected release of the Renesas 365, a solution streamlining electronics system design from silicon to lifecycle management. The announcement follows news of Renesas’ acquisition of Altium, showing how prominent the collaboration will be. The environment is built on the Altium 365 platform.

MUNICH, Germany and TOKYO, Japan ― Renesas Electronics Corporation launched the new generation of automotive fusion system-on-chips (SoCs), serving multiple automotive domains including Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), and gateway applications on a single chip.

San Jose, California. Tessolve and Renesas collaborated to develop Tessolve’s SMARC SOM compatible with SMARC standard 2.1 and based on the RZ/V2H MPU leveraging four Arm Cortex-A55 CPU cores alongside two Cortex-R8 cores, one Cortex-M33, and an AI Accelerator (DRP-AI3) capable of eight TOPS/dense and 80 TOPS/sparse.

In a rare move, I had two guests join me for this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, but for a good reason. I was joined by Mohammed Dogar, Vice President and Head of Global Business Development and Ecosystem at Renesas Electronics, and Sakya Dasgupta, Founder and CEO of EdgeCortix.

TOKYO. Renesas Electronics recently introduced its RA8 Series of microcontrollers (MCUs), which provide a performance level of over 3000 CoreMark points, as well as deterministic, low latency, real-time operation. The series' implementation of the Arm Cortex-M85 processor enables 6.39 CoreMark/MHz performance, which will allow system designers to use the RA MCUs in applications that previously required microprocessors (MPUs). The new series is part of Renesas’ popular RA Family of MCUs based on Arm Cortex processors. Existing designs built for other RA devices can easily be ported to the new RA8 MCUs.