{"id":1028155,"date":"2026-08-12T07:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028155"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:12:50","slug":"tsmc-sony-to-invest-4-7-billion-in-joint-venture-for-image-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/12\/tsmc-sony-to-invest-4-7-billion-in-joint-venture-for-image-sensors\/","title":{"rendered":"TSMC, Sony to invest $4.7 billion in joint venture for image sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC and Sony Group said on Tuesday they will form a $4.69 billion joint venture to develop and make next-generation image sensors in southern Japan, with volume production expected to start in \u200c2029. <\/p>\n<p>Sony will \u2060be \u2060the controlling shareholder and invest 465 billion yen ($2.92 billion) through a combination of cash and asset transfers, including its newly constructed chip factory in Kumamoto prefecture, while TSMC will invest 282 billion yen, the companies said in a joint statement. <\/p>\n<p>The venture, Advanced Vision Semiconductor \u2060Manufacturing Corp, \u200cwill be based in Kumamoto, where TSMC operates its Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM) chip plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC and Sony Group said on Tuesday they will form a $4.69 billion joint venture to develop and make next-generation image sensors in southern Japan, with volume production expected to start in \u200c2029. Sony will \u2060be \u2060the controlling shareholder and invest 465 billion yen ($2.92 billion) through a combination of cash and asset transfers, including its newly constructed chip factory in Kumamoto prefecture, while TSMC will invest 282 billion yen, the companies said in a joint statement. The venture, Advanced Vision Semiconductor \u2060Manufacturing Corp, \u200cwill be based in Kumamoto, where TSMC operates its Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM) [&hellip;]<\/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-1028155","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\/1028155","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=1028155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028177,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028155\/revisions\/1028177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}