Sony plans to make a large investment its in imaging business and will increase production of CMOS sensors for mobile devices.
The company will spend as much as $345 million to improve the capacity of its sensor-making facilities. Sony has already purchased several new manufacturing plants. The company currently makes about 60,000 sensors a month. It will improve those yields to 68,000 by August 2015 and eventually 75,000 by the end of 2015.
Sony makes CMOS sensors for its own smartphones and tablets, but also for other manufacturers, such as Apple.
