Sony raises image sensor capex…again
In its year consolidated financial year 2014 report Sony Corp. has said it plans to increase its capital expenditure in FY2015. As recently as April Sony raised its image sensors capex figure for FY15 to 150 billion yen when it announced additional spending to make stacked image sensors.
Sony’s spending on image sensor manufacturing is the majority of its total semiconductor spending. The total is set to rise to 270 billion yen (about $2.2 billion) in FY15 from 70 billion yen (about $580 million) in FY2014.
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