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Sony Semiconductor Solutions

Manufactures CMOS image sensors for smartphones and automotive cameras.

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Part of the chain
Integrated device manufacturers
Headquarters
Japan
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TSE/NYSE: SONY
SEC CIK
0000313838
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Filed figures

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Customers and suppliers, as its annual report states them

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Fabrication and packaging sites

5 site(s) recorded on the fab map: 3 operating, 1 under construction, 1 announced. Grouped by the status each site is published under, in the same order on every page. The order is not a judgement about which sites matter. A site run by a joint venture appears on every partner's page.

Operating 3

SiteLocationWaferNodesFirst output
Kumamoto Technology CenterKikuchi/Kikuyo, Kumamoto, Japan300 mmnot recordednot recorded
Kumamoto Fab 1Kikuyo, Kumamoto, Japan300 mm28nm, 22nm, 16nm, 12nm2024
Nagasaki Technology CenterNagasaki, Japan300 mmnot recordednot recorded

Under construction 1

SiteLocationWaferNodesFirst output
Kumamoto Fab 2Kikuyo, Kumamoto, Japan300 mm6nm, 4nmnot recorded

Announced 1

SiteLocationWaferNodesFirst output
Next-generation image sensor JV fabKumamoto, Japannot recordednot recordednot recorded

Node bands

Nodes are recorded on 2 of the 5 sites here, so this is not a full picture of what the company runs. Which bands those nodes fall into, under each definition this record holds. A band is a publisher's statement on a date and not this record's classification: N7 was the leading edge when it arrived and is ordinary now, and nothing about the node changed. So the answer is computed against each definition and shown with the date of it.

SEMI · 2025-01-07 · 200mm equivalent · World Fab Forecast, SEMI press release, 7 January 2025 · this definition
Advanced “advanced nodes (7nm and below)” 4nm, 6nm · 1 site
Mainstream “mainstream nodes (8nm~45nm)” 12nm, 16nm, 22nm, 28nm · 1 site
Advanced “7nm and below” 4nm, 6nm · 1 site

Outside every band in this scheme: 12nm, 16nm, 22nm, 28nm. This scheme defines only the bands above, so these are unclassified BY IT rather than placed in the nearest one.

Stated capacity

1 statement covers 2 of the 5 sites recorded here. They are quoted as published, because they are not the same kind of figure as each other: some are installed and some planned, some are bounds rather than figures, and some describe a whole site rather than one fab. They are not added together, here or anywhere else on this site. A total built from the sites that happen to carry a figure would be a number no publisher stated. Kumamoto Fab 1 and Kumamoto Fab 2 are held jointly by TSMC, Sony Semiconductor. A joint venture's figure is the WHOLE fab's, not this company's share of it: the publisher stated the fab and said nothing about how it divides.

“the Kumamoto site is expected to offer a total production capacity of more than 100,000 12-inch wafers per month”
TSMC · 2024-02-06 · planned · lower bound · 300mm actual · covers Kumamoto Fab 1, Kumamoto Fab 2 · shared site · JASM Set to Expand in Kumamoto Japan, 6 February 2024 · this statement

Published by Sony Semiconductor

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Named in a headline

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How these lists are built

Matched on the company's name in the headline, counted and not curated. This is a literal text match: the name as written, or the same name in capitals, and nothing else. It is not a judgement about what an item is about, so it misses items that discuss the company without naming it, and collects items that only mention the name. It is not a measure of coverage. Strings matched: Sony Semiconductor, Sony Semiconductor Solutions.

Sites are joined by the operator string in the fab data, which is declared per operator rather than matched, because a third of those strings are not a company name.

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