Date: 01/03/2011

Toshiba transfers semiconductor fab equipment to Sony

Toshiba Corporation is transferring semiconductor fabrication equipment to Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation.

The fabrication equipment to be transferred from Toshiba to SCK are semiconductor fabrication equipment located at SCK's Nagasaki Technology Center operated by Nagasaki Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, a joint venture among Toshiba, Sony and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Toshiba is doing this to become fab-lite. Sony is strengthening its production capacity for CMOS image sensors, demand for which is increasing, and expand its CMOS image sensor business by utilizing the equipment to be transferred to Sony that is located at SCK's Nagasaki Technology Center.