IoT devices need to provide flexible support for Bluetooth LE regardless of their implementation format. Renesas developed two technologies to address the requirements it has seen as needs in the IoT industry.

Renesas R-Car SoC and RH850 MCU to be Used in Honda SENSING System

Renesas Electronics Corporation's RZ/Five employs the Andes AX45MP, based on the RISC-V CPU instruction set architecture (ISA). The RZ/Five augments Renesas’ previously available Arm® CPU core-based MPUs, expanding customer options and providing more flexibility in the product development process.

Renesas Xtreme (RX) Microcontrollers Are Used in Wide Range of Consumer, Industrial and IoT Applications

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced that it has delivered more than one billion microcontrollers from the RX Family of 32-bit MCUs, which incorporate Renesas' proprietary RX CPU core.

Renesas announced that its R-Car H3 and R-Car M3 system-on-chips (SoCs) have been adopted by Toyota Motor Corporation for their next-generation multimedia systems.

Acquisitions in our space are pretty common. Sometimes they make a lot of sense, sometimes they make me scratch my head.