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What Renesas Electronics layoffs have meant for employees

If you joined Renesas through Intersil or IDT, the layoff notices Renesas filed in California in 2023 and 2025 list the offices those companies ran. The Milpitas notices list 1001 Murphy Ranch Road, the headquarters address on Intersil’s February 2017 8-K from the day its Renesas merger took effect, and the San Jose notices list 6024 Silver Creek Valley Road, the address on IDT’s March 2019 8-K for the day its own merger closed. Each of the seven Renesas notices in California’s 2023-24 WARN report and its report for 2024-25 names one of those two buildings, and the two June 2025 notices called them the Milpitas Campus and the San Jose Campus. The state typed all seven as permanent layoffs rather than closures.

The years of those notices, 2023 and 2025, also brought company-wide rounds, and each went along with pay held back for the people who stayed. The layoffs that began in November 2023 ran regardless of region or position, according to SemiMedia, and in March 2024 Renesas pushed its April raise back six months, to October, after reaching agreement with its union. It tied the delay to weak semiconductor market conditions, and its public relations office said the company would reduce "a limited number of personnel in Japan and overseas" and follow each country’s procedures. In January 2025, Reuters reported, the spring raises were canceled, executives’ included, and Renesas said the layoffs would enhance its "ability to execute the long-term growth strategy, while taking into consideration continuing market softness." Neither report gives a US or California count or ties the Bay Area notices to its round, so the counts in those notices are the California numbers on record.

If you were part of the timing business, the February 2026 asset purchase agreement between Renesas Electronics America and SiTime sets out what the two companies promised each other about you, and it says none of it creates rights an employee can enforce. For a year after SiTime completed the purchase on July 1, the date SiTime’s release gives, SiTime was to keep each transferred employee’s base salary or hourly wage no lower than it was just before the closing. It also took on any WARN notice owed for a later closing or mass layoff that hits transferred US staff, and agreed to step in as successor on Renesas’ US immigration filings for the employees those filings cover, with no material changes to their positions, work locations or base salaries. For anyone who moved over, the one-year pay terms run out by July 1, 2027.

Twice, the effective date on a Renesas notice came before the state had the notice. The state received the November 2023 notices on December 22, three weeks after their December 1 effective date, and the June 2025 notices are dated June 10, about four weeks after the effective date they give, May 12. The January and February 2025 notices reached the state ahead of their effective dates. If you’re watching California’s list for word of your building, a notice there can show up after the layoff it reports.

If you work at Takasaki, Renesas’ July 2026 release named reassignment and career support, inside the company and outside it, as its policy for the employees the phase-out affects, and it said the R&D functions located at the site would be maintained, with the current location and nearby areas the leading candidates for where they go.

If your job at either Bay Area campus ended, the claim rules for California are at California unemployment benefits.