The SH7216 Series with 32-bit SH-2A CPU core offers a maximum operating frequency of 200 MHz, representing a 1.25-fold improvement in performance over the 160 MHz of Renesas Electronics's existing the SH7211. They also include large-capacity high-speed flash memory and RAM through the use of cutting-edge flash memory technology. Featuring an on-chip power supply step-down circuit, these microcontrollers are designed to achieve lower current dissipation by suppressing the increase in current dissipation associated with higher speed, and attain 3.3 V single-power-supply operation while at the high operating frequency of 200 MHz. In addition, the SH7216 Series incorporates a PWM timer, 12-bit AD converter, LAN controller, USB, and CAN as peripheral functions. The SH7216 Series lineup consists of the SH7216 Group (with floating-point unit (FPU)) and the SH7214 Group (without FPU).

Renesas Electronics had earlier launched the SH7260 Series of microcontrollers, built around the SH2A-FPU 32-bit CPU core with superb real time processing capability, as a solution for the digital audio field. The SH7262 and SH7264 belong to the SH7260 Series of microcontrollers, and the maximum operating frequency of 144 MHz enables faster operation in applications such as equipment control or digital audio signal processing. This combination of excellent signal processing performance and ROM code efficiency means that compression and decompression of audio data in formats required by digital audio applications, such as MP3, WMA, or AAC (Advanced Audio Coding), is performed more quickly and program sizes are reduced. & The SH7262 and SH7264 provide a new video display controller and digital video input pins for use with graphical and video display applications. Digital RGB output pins allow output of images or video in RGB565 format at up to WQVGA size (480 × 240 pixels).