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Report: Sony to buy back fab from Toshiba
12/22/2010 3:33 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO—Sony Corp. plans to re-acquire a semiconductor fab in Nagasaki, Japan, that it sold to Toshiba Corp. in 2008, according to a Reuters report that cites Japan's Nikkei business daily as its source.
Sony will buy the fab for about $597.2 million in order to double its capacity to produce CMOS sensors, according to the report. The acquisition will double Sony's image sensor output to about 40,000 wafers per month, according to the report.
Sony transferred its Fab 2 in Nagasaki to Toshiba in March 2008 as part of a complex $835 million deal between the two companies that included the establishment of a joint venture.
Sony will buy the fab for about $597.2 million in order to double its capacity to produce CMOS sensors, according to the report. The acquisition will double Sony's image sensor output to about 40,000 wafers per month, according to the report.
Sony transferred its Fab 2 in Nagasaki to Toshiba in March 2008 as part of a complex $835 million deal between the two companies that included the establishment of a joint venture.
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