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Image Sensor Production Facility
Leading-Edge Fab for CMOS Sensors Scheduled
to go Online this Spring
Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation
Kumamoto Technology Center |
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The Kumamoto Technology Center is
Sony’s production site
for imaging devices.
Sony begins mass production of
CMOS sensors using 300 mm wafers
in a 5000 m2 clean room in part of
Building 2 this spring.
This article introduces our activities at
Kumamoto Technology Center,
focusing on Building 2, which brings
together leading edge fab concepts,
including borderless production
with the existing line (Building 1),
full automation including facility
operation, and thoroughgoing
energy saving efforts. |
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Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation
Production Site (technology center); Kagoshima, Oita, Nagasaki, Kumamoto |
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| Sony is taking advantage of the Kyushu region and moving
forward with business activities that aim at worldwide
markets and that span a range from the development of
Sony semiconductors, through design, production, distribution,
quality control, and environmental efforts. |
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● Location: Kikuyo-machi, Kikuchi-gun, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
● Start of operations: October 2001
● Site area: 260,000 m2
● Floor area: 195,000 m2
● Employees: About 2,700 (As of August 2007, including contract and temporary staff)
● Products: Image sensors (CCD and CMOS sensors) and micro display devices (high-temperature
polycrystalline silicon TFT LCDs, SXRD products)
● Wafer production capacity: 24,000 per month
* Combined processing capacity for Building 1 and Building 2 (operating at full capacity) |
Overview of Building 2 (As of August 2007)
● Floor area: 104,000 m2
● Clean room area: 20,000 m2 (Of which 7500 m2 have been fully equipped.)
● Products: CMOS sensors
Building 2 Expansion (Announced June 2007)
(1) Construction area: 5000 m2 for the Building 2 clean room area
increase and improved manufacturing
equipment
(2) Amount of investment: Approximately 60,000,000,000 Yen
(3) Construction start date: July 2007
(4) Start of operations: May 2008 (planned)
(5) Main products: CMOS sensor (wafer line) |
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