{"id":1003434,"date":"2026-04-17T09:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003434"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:44:12","slug":"sony-to-get-up-to-380-million-image-sensor-factory-japan-subsidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/17\/sony-to-get-up-to-380-million-image-sensor-factory-japan-subsidy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony to get up to $380 million image sensor factory Japan subsidy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: The Japanese government will provide subsidies of up to 60 billion yen ($380 million) to \u200cSony for \u2060an \u2060image sensor plant in the western Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, industry minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Image sensors \u2060will be &#8220;indispensable \u200cfor autonomous driving and physical AI&#8221; \u2060and &#8220;we hope a stable supply of image sensors&#8230; will be secured,&#8221; Akazawa said at a press conference. <\/p>\n<p>Sony is a \u200cleading manufacturer of image sensors used in smartphones in \u2060addition to its strengths in entertainment, spanning games, movies, music and anime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: The Japanese government will provide subsidies of up to 60 billion yen ($380 million) to \u200cSony for \u2060an \u2060image sensor plant in the western Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, industry minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Friday. Image sensors \u2060will be &#8220;indispensable \u200cfor autonomous driving and physical AI&#8221; \u2060and &#8220;we hope a stable supply of image sensors&#8230; will be secured,&#8221; Akazawa said at a press conference. Sony is a \u200cleading manufacturer of image sensors used in smartphones in \u2060addition to its strengths in entertainment, spanning games, movies, music and anime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}