Overview
Sony's Shiroishi-Zao Technology Center in Shiroishi, Miyagi Prefecture traces to Sony Shiroishi Semiconductor, established in 1969. It was absorbed into Sony Semiconductor Kyushu in 2011 (the merged entity becoming Sony Semiconductor Corporation) and renamed the Shiroishi-Zao Technology Center. The site is Sony's laser-diode manufacturing base, producing semiconductor lasers including blue-violet laser diodes for Blu-ray optical pickups and VCSEL chips for 3D sensing and time-of-flight applications. As a compound-semiconductor laser fab, it does not report a CMOS process node; per-fab wafer-size, capacity, and cost figures are not disclosed. Key facility details include: The facility is situated at Shiroishi, Miyagi, Japan. It focuses on Sensors, Photonics / Optical. Production at this facility commenced in 1969.
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About Sony
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, is the world's largest maker of CMOS image sensors, having shipped over 20 billion units by the end of 2024 and commercialized the first stacked CMOS image sensor. It operates its own wafer fabs in Japan to produce image sensors and related devices for mobile, automotive, and industrial customers.