Sony CMOS image sensors : Sony Corporation announced that it plans to invest in Sony Semiconductor Corporation's Nagasaki Technology Center from the first half of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013 through the first half of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014, to increase the production capacity for stacked CMOS image sensors. This investment is intended to provide for new wafer processing equipment for stacked Sony CMOS image sensors, and to increase and transform wafer lines capable of manufacturing Sony CMOS image sensors. With this development, Sony plans to increase total production capacity for CCD and CMOS image sensors to approximately 60,000 wafers per month by the end of September 2013.
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