According to the "Economic Daily" report, TSMC has recently won the global CIS leader Sony's big order, and will build a OEM production line exclusively for Sony's high-end CIS at the Nanke 14B factory. Earlier this year, Sony handed over some orders for CIS to TSMC for the first time. This new order also extends the cooperation between the two parties to 28 nanometers.

According to reports, TSMC will build a foundry production line exclusively for Sony to produce high-end CIS at the Nanke 14B factory, which is equivalent to Sony's "package factory". In order to welcome this "super large order", TSMC bought Jiadeng Nanke Factory next to TSMC, and asked Jiadeng to relocate as quickly as possible. In order to divide the common facilities of Factory 14B and Factory 14A, it strives to separate Factory 14B Build a higher-end CIS foundry area specifically for Sony foundry.

According to industry analysts, after TSMC has achieved a global leading position in the advanced process below 7 nanometers, its most profitable 28-nanometer orders have even passed the news, winning Sony's advanced high-end CIS image sensor, which means that both TSMC's advanced process and mature process orders Fully grasp.

5G brings great potential for applications such as autonomous driving, and smart phones equipped with more CIS, driving the global outbreak of the CIS market. The market is also generally optimistic about the future application prospects of high-end image sensors, and Sony's competitors Samsung and Howe are also actively expanding production capacity.

It is also reported that Sony was originally a TSMC customer. In the past, the cooperation was mainly based on logic chips. At the beginning of this year, Sony changed the strategy of all CIS manufacturing in the past. For the first time, some CIS orders were handed over to TSMC OEMs to leverage TSMC's market share. At that time, it caused industry attention. It is reported that Sony’s previous CIS order for TSMC was produced at the TSMC Nanke 14A plant with a 40-nanometer process. TSMC has also purchased new equipment designated by Sony for this purpose. It is intensively installed and is scheduled for trial production in August, the first in next year Seasonal mass production with an initial monthly production capacity of 20,000 pieces.