Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), the world’s number one supplier of microcontrollers, is a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions including microcontrollers, SoC solutions and a broad-range of analog and power devices. 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. Headquartered in Japan, Renesas Electronics has subsidiaries in 20 countries worldwide. More information can be found at www.renesas.com.

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¹ Example of tightening of regulations under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard in the United States.

² Tj: junction temperature

³ Based on a comparison of execution times on an engine control processing simulator in applications such as ignition timing and fuel injection control.

⁴ SENT (Single Edge Nibble Transmission) conforms to SAE J2716, version JAN2010.

⁵ CAN FD (Controller Area Network Flexible Data-rate) conforms to ISO 11898-1.

⁶ SHE (Secure Hardware Extension) conforms to EVITA-Light (E-safety Vehicle Intrusion proTected Application).

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