Renesas has announced one of the first independently developed 32-bit RISC-V CPUs.
Renesas, long a major player in the industrial MCU and CPU universe, has announced the release of a new CPU family with a RISC-V core of its own design. The design joins Renesas’ 32-bit arsenal, which includes Arm Cortex-M-based CPUs and the proprietary RX family. The devices are targeted at the general-purpose RISC-V market for consumer, industrial, healthcare, and IoT applications.