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> spin off its microprocessor division into a new company called "Renesas". This new company did not inherit the Hitachi engineers who had designed SuperH This
by hulitu 2y ago
> spin off its microprocessor division into a new company called "Renesas". This new company did not inherit the Hitachi engineers who had designed SuperH
This explaines why Renesas' products are so bad and why the datasheets are terrible.
- joezydeco 2y agoI tried to evaluate their intro Linux processor (RZ/A) a while back and the amount of support we got from the factory was dismal. I got an FAE to confess that the two factions (Hitachi vs NEC) didn't get along. They have a bread-and-butter product line in the RL78 but we dropped the idea of using them for anything else.