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. ● 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)