Interview - Hidetoshi Shibata, CEO of Renesas: Looking outside Japan to accelerate chip production

Renesas Electronics Corporation specializes in the design, manufacture and marketing of semiconductor-based electronic components. The group offers microcontrollers, microprocessors, amplifiers, converters, switches, sensors, integrated circuits, regulators and more. Net sales break down by market as follows: - industries, infrastructures and applications related to the Internet of things (56.3%); - automotive industry (42.9%); - other (0.8%). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (25.1%), China (28.3%), Asia (21.3%), Europe (15.8%), North America (9.2%) and other (0.3%).