I found it strange that they are using a ARM Renesas chip instead of your more well known brands such as ST Micro, NXP or Microchip. Renesas was fairly late on using ARM cores compared to the rest of the industry.

Then I read the comment on CNX-Software. Renesas has invested 10 million dollar to Arduino. [1].

Now it makes sense. Gotta follow the money.

[1]: https://www.renesas.com/us/en/about/press-room/renesas-annou...