Daniel,
I was particularly amused by this little bit
"Sony talks a very aggressive line," said Steven W. Myers, who follows
industrial electronics at Jardine Fleming Securities in Tokyo. "but they are
not semiconductor people and they don't necessarily know how difficult
manufacturing chips can be. To design all out for performance, as they
have done, without taking into account manufacturability — to just
assume it — that's a bit presumptuous."
So was I, because Sony do manufacture semiconductors - indeed they specialise in some of the more difficult mixed signal devices.
sel.sony.com
Products from the Semiconductor Business Division include ultra-high speed Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) as well as a diverse selection of products targeted to the audio, video and communication markets. These include data communications, TV and audio ICs; digital filters; CCD sensors; serial/optical communication ICs; cellular/PCS ICs; multimedia ICs and modules. Discrete components include laser diodes, variable capacitance diodes and GaAs FET devices.
The company's broad range of communication ICs includes devices for fiberoptic and radio communications applications, infrared receiver ICs and devices for wireless communication; monolithic microwave ICs used in cellular telephones; and GaAs HEMTs and FETs used in RF and microwave communications.
Many of the applications for Sony's diverse product line are in computers, peripherals and communication products. The product line is based on four types of semiconductor technology -- CMOS, BiCMOS, Bipolar and gallium arsenide.
John |
