What Happened?
Santa Clara, CA-based Renesas Promoted Hideto Hidaka as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Renesas Electronics Corporation delivers trusted embedded design innovation with complete semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices to enhance the way people work and live—securely and safely. Business operations began as Renesas Electronics in April 2010 through the integration of NEC Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723) and Renesas Technology Corp., with operations spanning research, development, design and manufacturing for a wide range of applications. With Intersil`s (NASDAQ:ISIL) integration in February 2017, it has boosted Renesas` portfolio to include a wider range of high performance precision analog, mixed-signal and power management solutions that no other are able to offer, making us a world class provider of the three solutions: Device, Kit & Platform. Renesas Electronics is headquartered in Japan, with subsidiaries in 20 countries worldwide. A global leader in microcontrollers, analog, power and SoC products, Renesas provides the expertise, quality, and comprehensive solutions for a broad range of Automotive, Industrial, Home Electronics (HE), Office Automation (OA) and Information Communication Technology (ICT) applications to help shape a limitless future.
About the Person
Hideto Hidaka was Senior Vice President and CTO, will lead the technology strategy and technology development work of the entire Renesas Group in his role as CTO. In addition, as Senior Vice President, he will work from the management side to strengthen technology at Renesas, enable efficient utilization of development resources, and facilitate concentration on and strengthening of our core technologies. After joining Mitsubishi Electric Corporation as a member of the LSI Laboratory, Hidaka worked on the development of memory-related products such as DRAM and embedded DRAM (eDRAM). Subsequently, he supervised development of microcontrollers (MCUs) with on-chip flash memory at Renesas Technology Corp. and Renesas Electronics Corporation. In addition to leading the development of technology used in MCUs that Renesas now boasts the top market share worldwide, Hidaka has been an active member of several international scientific and technical societies in the semiconductor circuit field (including IEEE and IEICE) and served as the Chairman of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), which is highly regarded in the industry as “the Olympic Games of Semiconductors”. He has thus played an important role in the development of semiconductor technology both inside and outside Renesas. Hidaka’s extensive personal connections with leaders in the field of semiconductor technology development, his extensive track record in the field, and his experience supervising design work on the world’s leading MCUs will enable him to make a major contribution to the future growth of Renesas and in particular to technological innovation.
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