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Fabs are well-known for being an expensive business to be in, so any time a new fab is slated for construction, it tends to be a big deal – especially amidst the current chip crunch. To that end, TSMC this week has announced plans to build a new, semi-specialized fab in Japan to meet the needs of its local customers. The semiconductor manufacturing facility will focus on mature and specialty fabrication technologies that are used to make chips with long lifecycles for automakers and consumer electronics. The fab will be Japan's most advanced fab for logic when it becomes operational in late 2024 and if the rumors about planned investments are correct, it could also be Japan's largest fab for logic chips. "After conducting due...
Sony Launches Xperia PRO 5G ... for $2499
Last year in February Sony had launched the Xperia 1 II, as well as teasing a sibling device called the Xperia PRO. This latter variant of the phone was...
19 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/26/2021
Sony Announces Xperia 5 II: 120Hz Full-Fledged Small Phone
Today Sony is following up on one of its newer form-factors that the company had introduced last year with the Xperia 5. The new Xperia 5 II (read as...
138 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/17/2020
Sony Announces PS5 Pricing: $499 For Regular Console, $399 For Digital Edition
At Sony’s PlayStation 5 Showcase this afternoon, the final (and much awaited) pieces of the puzzle with regards to the console’s launch have dropped: pricing and a release date. Sony’s...
86 by Ryan Smith on 9/16/2020
Altair Semiconductor Renames to Sony Semiconductor Israel
Today, after more than four years of being acquired by Sony, Altair Semiconductor is renaming itself as Sony Semiconductor Israel. The IoT focused company over the last few years...
4 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/21/2020
Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher In A New Era of Gaming
A new generation of gaming consoles is due to hit the market later this year, and the hype cycle for the Xbox Series X and Playstation 5 has been...
200 by Billy Tallis on 6/12/2020
Sony Teases PlayStation 5 Design
Today during Sony’s “The Future of Gaming” show where the company and its partners revealed a slew of next-generation game titles, we also had a first glimpse of the...
114 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/11/2020
Sony Announces New Xperia 1 II Flagship, Teases Xperia PRO
Today Sony announces the successor to last year’s Xperia 1 flagship phone, the new Xperia 1 II, as well as teasing a new interesting device in the form of...
120 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/24/2020
AnandTech Year In Review 2019: Flagship Mobile
2019 is coming to an end, and it’s time again to look back at what the industry has brought us. This year, we saw a lot of hardware improvements...
54 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/26/2019
Sony to Build New Fab to Boost CMOS Sensor Output
Sony this week has revealed that the company will be building a new semiconductor fab to boost output of its CMOS sensors, as part of a broader effort to...
16 by Anton Shilov on 11/1/2019
Sony’s Micro LED-Based Ultra-HD TVs Available to Consumers: 2K to 16K Resolutions, up to 790-Inches
Sony this month started to offer its Micro LED-based displays to well-funded consumers. Officially branded as Crystal LED direct view display systems (aka CLEDIS), these ultra high-end products were...
47 by Anton Shilov on 9/19/2019
The Sony Xperia 1 Review: A 21:9 Take of the World
Sony is a company that we don’t talk nearly as much about as one would expect when it comes to their smartphones. In fact, here at AnandTech we had...
75 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/26/2019
Sony's Flagship Xperia 1 21:9 Smartphone Gets a Launch Date: July 12th for $950
Sony has finally given its flagship Xperia 1 smartphone an official launch date and price. The handset, which features a large 21:9 OLED display that supports wide color gamuts...
35 by Anton Shilov on 5/17/2019
Sony Teases Next-Gen PlayStation: Custom AMD Chip with Zen 2 CPU & Navi GPU, SSD Too
After years of speculation about what could be and what Sony may be up to, the company is finally starting to ramp up the long launch cycle for their...
187 by Ryan Smith on 4/16/2019
Sony Develops 16K Display: A 783-Inch ‘Crystal LED’ Screen
Sony has shown at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show that it had developed a screen featuring a 16K resolution that uses its Crystal LED technology. The...
19 by Anton Shilov on 4/11/2019
Sony Xperia 1, the Long 21:9 Smartphone, Available for Pre-Order
When Sony introduced its Xperia 1 flagship smartphone at MWC 2019, the company disclosed all technical specifications, but omitted two important details: pricing and launch date. This month some...
25 by Anton Shilov on 3/15/2019
Sony Has a Prototype 5G mmWave Xperia Smartphone
Numerous manufacturers of smartphones either launched or demonstrated prototypes of their 5G handsets at this year's Mobile World Congress. While many of the handsets shown off supported sub-6GHz 5G...
11 by Anton Shilov on 3/6/2019
The Sony Xperia 1: A Long 21:9 HDR 4K OLED Smartphone
Being a high-tech company with multiple divisions, Sony can fetch technologies from various units to build products with unique qualities. At Mobile World Congress 2019 the company introduced its...
20 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2019
Sony's $100 PlayStation Classic: Available December 2018 with 20 Games
Sony’s PlayStation game console made a strong influence on the entertainment industry when it was launched in 1994. Having been sold in quantities of over 104 million units globally...
25 by Anton Shilov on 9/19/2018
Sony Launches The Xperia XZ3: First Sony OLED Smartphone
Today Sony launched the successor to this year’s not-so-old XZ2 which was released only 6 months ago at MWC. The new XZ3 is an iterative design over the XZ2...
39 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/30/2018
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