Sources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029
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Next-gen image sensors are being treated as strategic infrastructure—$6.3B in Kumamoto is a bet that vision workloads will keep compounding across phones, cars, and industrial systems. If your product depends on cameras, plan for a world where sensor capability, not just models, is the differentiator.
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