TOKYO: Sony on Thursday said it would invest 35 billion yen ($345 million) to increase production of image sensors for smartphones and tablets, as the company courts handset makers to get more orders for front-facing camera sensors, used to take selfies.
The Japanese firm said it will increase production of stacked CMOS sensors at two factories on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, while completing work on a factory in northwestern Japan it bought from Renesas Electronics for a total investment of 35 billion yen.
Sony, which currently supplies image sensors for the main camera in Apple's iPhone said the investment will allow it to raise production by 13% to 68,000 wafers a month by August 2015, a step closer to its mid-term goal of 75,000.
0 comments:
Post a Comment