(MMitsubishi + Hitachi = Renesas) + NEC = Renesas
Yah a bit of merger madness, NEC Electronics has merged with Renesas, further consolidating the Japanese microcontroller market. This will put the new company third in global IC sales, behind only Intel and Samsung. It will be interesting to see which products survive the merger, as there will be some overlap.
What does this mean for CPU collectors? Just as happened when Mitsubishi and Hitachi merged, deprecated and eliminated devices will become increasingly hard to find data on.
Source: EE Times
