{"id":580073,"date":"2026-08-10T04:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/580073\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T04:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:44:09","slug":"sony-tsmc-to-spend-6-3-billion-to-jointly-make-image-sensors-nikkei-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/580073\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony, TSMC to spend $6.3 billion to jointly make image sensors, Nikkei says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">TOKYO, Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Sony Group and Taiwan&#8217;s TSMC plan to spend around \u200c1 trillion yen ($6.32 billion) to jointly \u200cmake next-generation microchips used in image sensors, the Nikkei \u200bbusiness daily said on Monday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">A joint venture owned about 60% by Sony and 40% by TSMC will start commercial production as early \u200cas 2029 in \u2060southern Japan&#8217;s Kumamoto prefecture, the paper said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The two tech giants said \u2060in May they planned to form a joint venture in Japan to develop and \u200bmanufacture next-generation \u200bimage sensors, combining \u200bSony&#8217;s sensor design expertise \u200cwith TSMC&#8217;s manufacturing and process technology strengths.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Sony and TSMC also said then that the partnership will explore opportunities in physical artificial intelligence applications such as automotive and robotics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Sony \u200cis the world&#8217;s largest maker \u200bof image sensors widely \u200bused in \u200bsmartphones and autos, while TSMC is \u200cthe world&#8217;s largest contract \u200bchipmaker.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Sony declined \u200bto comment on the Nikkei report, while there was no immediate response from TSMC \u200bto Reuters&#8217; \u200crequest for comment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">($1 = 158.2700 yen)  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">(Reporting by \u200bWen-Yee Lee, Sam Nussey, Kiyoshi Takenaka; \u200bEditing by Kate Mayberry)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO, Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Sony Group and Taiwan&#8217;s TSMC plan to spend around \u200c1 trillion yen ($6.32&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,262340,46,262339,24989],"class_list":["post-580073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-image-sensors","tag-israel","tag-sony-group","tag-tsmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}