In addition, Renesas is utilizing small-area, power-saving technology and technology enabling highly efficient bus access and tolerance for bus latency, both accumulated in the development of Renesas SoC products for mobile devices and vehicle information systems, with the AMBA® (Note 4) interface used to connect the new IP.

Renesas expects the new IP to occupy a key position in the next generation of video processing and plans to actively promote sales in a wide range of markets, including mobile devices, consumer devices, vehicle information systems, and industrial equipment. Future plans include performance improvements to enable higher resolutions and higher bit rates as well as multi-standard support covering existing video encoding formats. In addition, Renesas will continue to develop IP technologies specialized for real-time video transfer, etc., and make them available in a timely manner in response to evolving market demand.

Refer to the separate sheet for the main specifications of the new hardware IP.

(Note 1) HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding): A video encoding standard established jointly by ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG. ISO/IEC and ITU-T have designated the new standard as 23008-2 (MPEG-H HEVC) and the H.265 international standard, respectively.

(Note 2) Ecosystem: A combination of development environment tools leveraging the same CPU architecture, such as OSes, compilers, and debuggers, and the associated aggregation of developers, solution providers, and others who collectively form a major business. Applying the term “ecosystem” to the IT business expresses the notion of similarity with an ecosystem in nature.

(Note 3) Peer-to-peer: A communication method in which data is transmitted and received directly between devices on the network.

(Note 4) AMBA: An on-chip bus interface developed by ARM Ltd. of the U.K.

About Renesas Electronics Corporation

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.

(Remarks) AMBA is a trademark of ARM Ltd. Other product and service names that appear in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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