Category Archives: Financial results

Imaging & Sensing Solutions (I&SS) There has been no major impact on Sony’s manufacturing plants in Japan, which are operating as usual. Sony also understands that factory operations and supply chains at most of its major mobile customers, to whom it sells its image sensors, have been recovering. On the other hand, image sensor sales […]

Imaging & Sensing Solutions Results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 Sales increased 191.2 billion yen (22%) year-on-year (a 24% increase on a constant currency basis) to 1 trillion 70.6 billion yen. This significant increase in sales was primarily due to a significant increase in sales of image sensors for mobile products, resulting […]

\ Notice Regarding Date of Sony Corporation’s Announcement of Consolidated Financial Results for the Fiscal Year ended March 31, 2020 Sony Corporation planned to announce its consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 on Thursday, April 30, 2020. However, due to delays in accounting closing procedures and other operations resulting from […]

Imaging & Sensing Solutions (I&SS) Sales are expected to be higher than the July forecast due to higher-than-expected sales of image sensors for mobile products, resulting from an improvement in product mix and higher-than-expected unit sales. Operating income is expected to be significantly higher than the July forecast primarily due to the impact of the […]

A few weeks ago we reported on an activist investor wanting Sony to spin off their semiconductors division. It looks like Sony responded to the activist investor by renaming the semiconductors business division and merging it more tightly into their other operations according to Image Sensor Resource Worlds excerpts below from the earnings call transcript […]