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Sony Group has agreed to form a joint venture with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to produce next-generation image sensors for smartphones.

Taiwan ‌chipmaker TSMC ​said on Tuesday it ‌will ⁠invest 282 billion ⁠yen ($1.77 billion) ​in ​a ​joint ‌venture with Sony Group to ‌develop ​and ​make ​next-generation ‌image sensors. ($1 = 159.3300 ​yen) (Reporting ​by ​Ben Blanchard; ‌Editing ​by Andrew ​Heavens)

Sony and TSMC are back in Kumamoto, this time as partners rather than neighbors, discussing a $6.4 billion image sensor plant on the same ground where Japan already spent billions rebuilding its chip industry. Five years ago, Tokyo lured TSMC to the prefecture with unprecedented state subsidies. ...

Sony Group and Taiwan's TSMC plan to spend around ‌1 trillion yen ($6.32 billion) to jointly ‌make next-generation microchips used in image sensors, the Nikkei ​business daily said on Monday. A joint venture owned about 60% by Sony and 40% by TSMC will start commercial production as early ‌as 2029 in ⁠southern Japan's Kumamoto prefecture, the paper said. The two tech giants said ⁠in May they planned to form a joint venture in Japan to develop and ​manufacture next-generation ​image sensors, combining ​Sony's sensor design expertise ‌with TSMC's manufacturing and process technology strengths.

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Sony Group Corporation has reported its first-quarter 2026 results, with sales rising to ¥2,837,771 million and net income to ¥342,161 million, alongside updated full-year guidance calling for ¥12,500,000 million in sales and ¥1,210,000 million in net income attributable to shareholders. These results highlight strong contributions from gaming, music and image sensors, while management’s higher full-year outlook comes despite flagged risks around memory markets and the Kumamoto earthquake...

Sony (NYSE:SONY) reported record first-quarter sales and operating income for fiscal 2026, raised its full-year sales, operating income and net-income forecasts, and said it expects most of an estimated ¥80 billion in U.S. tariff refunds to benefit results during the current fiscal year. For the qu

Sony hiked its profit forecasts for the current year on Friday, helped by the Japanese consumer electronics giant's video games division and the weak yen.Sony on Friday indicated that it has sufficient components to meet planned production levels for its PlayStation 5 during the current fiscal year.

Sony Group Corp. reported a 32% profit growth in the fiscal first quarter Friday while warning of a negative impact from the earthquake that hit southwestern Kumamoto earlier this week. Before the quake, Sony had said it was on track to report record profit for the fiscal year.

First-quarter net profit came in stronger than expected, supported by a rise in earnings from the music and image-sensor businesses.

Sony on Friday hiked its full-year operating profit forecast by 8% to 1.72 trillion yen ($10.72 billion), ‌citing the strength of its gaming business. The Japanese conglomerate has received ‌plaudits for its pivot to entertainment, but the market is concerned about the impact of ​AI and a memory chip price boom on its business. In the April-June quarter, ‌group operating profit rose 40% ⁠to 476.5 billion yen, beating analyst estimates, due to the strength of the gaming and image sensors businesses.

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Sony Group has made ‌a proposal to ‌acquire Tamron Co, the Japanese ​camera lens maker said on Thursday, adding it has established a special ‌committee ⁠to review various options. Sony has made a ⁠non-binding proposal for a series of transactions ​to make ​Tamron ​a wholly ‌owned Sony subsidiary, the optical components manufacturer said in a statement. Tamron had a market capitalisation of $1.18 ‌billion at ​Wednesday's close.

Sony is set to be a major beneficiary of the launch of "Grand Theft Auto VI" but the highly anticipated game is landing as the PlayStation maker grapples with rising prices of ‌memory chips. The Japanese entertainment conglomerate, widely seen as the winner of the high-end console wars as Microsoft's Xbox business ‌retrenches, has a long history with Take-Two Interactive Software, which will launch its delayed "GTA VI" on November 19. "GTA VI will be console only and the vast majority of ​new users will choose a PlayStation 5," said Serkan Toto, founder of Kantan Games consultancy.

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Investing.com -- Sony Interactive Entertainment dealt the physical gaming market a landmark blow on Wednesday, announcing that disc production for all new PlayStation games will cease in January 2028, a watershed moment for console gaming. The company's own data shows that nearly four in five full-game purchases on PS4 and PS5 were made digitally over the past year, providing the commercial rationale for a policy that applies to every publisher, not just Sony's first-party titles.

Sony said on Wednesday it will stop producing physical discs for all new games ‌released on PlayStation consoles from January 2028, marking a ‌full shift to digital distribution as consumer purchases continue to move online. Digital ​downloads accounted for about 80% of Sony's full-game software sales in fiscal 2025, according to the company, reflecting a years-long shift toward digital game purchases. The Japanese entertainment and technology company ‌said new PlayStation titles ⁠released from January 2028 will be sold through the PlayStation Store and by retailers in ⁠digital formats only.

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