New sensor production facility from Sony

Sony Group is reportedly planning to build a new $5.8 billion image sensor manufacturing facility in Japan after 2025. In response to the increasing demand for semiconductors and image sensors worldwide in parallel with digitalization, manufacturing companies are accelerating their investments. According to the Japanese industry newspaper Nikkan Kogyo, Sony Group will build a new facility in Kumamoto, southern Japan. The new $5.8 billion (800 billion yen) manufacturing facility, which will be laid in 2024 at the earliest, will be operational after fiscal year 2025. Sony also has a sensor manufacturing facility in the same region and semiconductor manufacturing investments with TSMC, one of the world's largest chip manufacturers. The Japanese government will subsidize the new Sony-TSMC joint chip facility, which will be put into service in 2024, with 476 billion yen ($3.5 billion).