Semiconductors
Chips Around You
Sensors, analog and MCUs in phones, cars and homes
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Renesas: The Japanese Chipmaker Whose Microcontrollers Run Inside Nearly Every Car
Renesas Electronics is a world-leading supplier of automotive microcontrollers (MCUs) — the small chips that control engines, brakes and everything in between. When the global chip shortage halted car production worldwide, this company was at the center of it. Born from the semiconductor arms of NEC, Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric, here is how its business, strengths and competitive structure fit together.
記事を読む Company Deep Dive: Sony SemiconductorSony Makes the Camera Sensor in 4 of Every 10 Smartphones — the Technology Behind Its 43% Market Share
Sony Semiconductor Solutions holds over 43% of the global CMOS image sensor market — the light sensors inside smartphone cameras. This deep dive examines how two breakthroughs, the back-illuminated sensor of 2009 and the stacked sensor of 2012, built a dominant position, and how the business is now diversifying into automotive and AI sensing.
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