Renesas has been the worldwide leader in industrial and automotive MCUs for a long time. This is partly based on proprietary architectures, such as RL78 or RX, but also, and more recently, on Arm® based architectures, with the big name here being Synergy. Synergy has Arm® Cortex®-M based S1, S3, S5 and S7 MCUs that can be used for HMI designs with ascending performance levels. One important point in this market is that MCUs have to facilitate fastest time-to-market and ease-of-use. This is exactly where Synergy MCUs outperform the overall MCU market. For high-end HMIs with highest computational performance, advanced 3D rendering and fastest video encoding and decoding, Renesas offers Arm® Cortex®-A based RZ/G MPUs to be used with CIP Linux platform. CIP stands for Civil Infrastructure Platform and targets all kinds of industrial equipment that enable today‘s modern lifestyles. Once users upgrade to the high-end MPU space, ease-of-use is typically lost, as architectures and software environments bear their inherent complexities. However, with MCUs clearly showing performance limitations, designers motivated to upgrade to high-performance, have to face the complexity challenge. There is really only one exception to this rule; the name is RZ/A. With a large on-chip SRAM, a Memory Management Unit, and a powerful Cortex®-A9 core, it is a highly differentiated part in the market that allows customers to keep their designs simple, yet have the option of running an RTOS or Linux. Note, that since Linux requires a Memory Management Unit, or MMU, a regular microcontroller like RX or Synergy is not capable of running standard Linux.