Total, Sony plans to invest in expanding production of modular CMOS-camera about $ 340 million, also Sony will get other factory from Renesas Electronics . Will be further strengthened production clusters Yamagata TEC and Kumamoto TEC. The company now produces a total of about a month 60,000 300-mm wafers with CMOS-sensors. By August 2014 the volume of production will be increased to 68,000 wafers per month by the end of spring 2016 - to 75,000 wafers per month.
According to the analytical center of Yole Developpement, Sony owns 21% of the market CMOS-sensors. In second place is Omnivision company with a market share of 19%, and the third line is Samsung Company with a share of 18%. As you can see, the competitors are sufficiently tight group, so each of them will do everything possible to strengthen its position.
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