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Renesas named its R-Car SoC chief to lead software and appointed a new CTO

Aish Dubey, who has run Renesas' R-Car system-on-chip family, will head Software & Digitalization, and Vivek Bhan moves from High Performance Computing to chief technology officer on January 1, 2027.

Renesas Electronics announced a set of leadership changes on November 4 that move the head of its R-Car chip business into software and install a new chief technology officer.

Aram Mirkazemi, senior vice president and general manager of Altium and interim head of Software & Digitalization, will leave the company on December 31, 2026. Aish Dubey, vice president and head of the SoC Division in the High Performance Computing Product Group, was appointed head of Software & Digitalization and joins the Enterprise Leadership Team. He will lead the software and tools Renesas delivers through Renesas 365. The company said Dubey has led strategy, product definition and execution for the R-Car SoC family across ADAS, cockpit, gateway and software-defined vehicle compute platforms, and his biography credits him with SDV development through the R-Car Open Access platform. He joined in 2023 from Texas Instruments, where he was general manager of the Jacinto processors business. Ananth Avva becomes acting president of Altium while Renesas searches for a permanent leader.

From January 1, 2027, Gaurang Shah, who runs Embedded Processing, adds the High Performance Computing Product Group. The two groups remain separate organizations under one leader, which Renesas said would drive a coordinated compute strategy from microcontrollers to high-performance SoCs. Vivek Bhan, currently general manager of High Performance Computing, becomes senior vice president, chief technology officer and head of engineering on the same date, reporting to chief executive Hidetoshi Shibata. The interim co-heads of engineering, Ramkumar Subramanian and Manoher Bommena, will report to him. Chief sales officer Stephen Limoges will be promoted to senior vice president on the same date.

Why it mattersRenesas is handing its software and tools organization to the executive who ran its automotive SoC line and, from January 1, 2027, will put its microcontrollers and high-performance SoCs under one general manager, so the same leaders will span the chips and the developer software that vehicle programs build on.

Source: Renesas Electronics newsroom

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