Digitimes reports that Sony will lower their investment on CMOS image sensor equipment in fiscal 2016: “Sony will reduce its equipment investment for CMOS image sensors to JPY70 billion (US$691.53 million) in fiscal 2016, while maintaining its sensor production capacity at 70,000 12-inch equivalent wafers a month during the fiscal year, according to Digitimes Research.”
Sony’s financial report is now available and things do not look very good. It appears the Earthquake really hurt Sony going forward and they are unable to accurately forecast going foward. It also seems that this natural disaster might cause Sony to focus more on the sales of their cameras than providing the industry […]
Sony announced their consolidated financial results for the 2015 fiscal year ending on March 31, 2016 (see the numbers for the Imaging Products & Solutions segment in the slides above). Here is a recap from Reuters:
Sony released their Q3 financial results and reported “significant” decrease in image sensor sales:
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