Canon to build $451 million factory to make image sensors
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted Jul 15th 2007 2:17PM
posted Jul 15th 2007 2:17PM
Canon has announced plans to construct a $451 million factory to construct CMOS components for its cameras. Expected to start production in July next year, the factory will be built on an existing site near Tokyo and will be be dedicated entirely to churning out the complementary metal oxide semiconductors (we prefer the acronym) required to detect light in every digital camera. It should have a capacity of around 3 million chips a year, which is only a fraction of the 24 million cameras that Canon hopes to produce this year. Good for Canon, we say.
It's rumored that a small town is being built adjacent to the factory to house and entertain the workers to be named "CMOS-eisly".
We must be cautious...
I'd rather they spent $451 million on a factory to build SED's... but then I'm feeling bitter about that whole damned fiasco.
*Sulks*
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Want one.
ceramic metal oxide semiconductor
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
hope Godzilla doesnt go an knock it down, lolololololololololololeleventy!!!!one
But will they make doom?
this isnt iPhone, so it suckz0r
I'm done =D
++ for the Star Wars reference strider_mt2k
If thats the case, they must be particularly wary. I have heard Toshiba Raiders travel single file to hide their numbers.
You looked at the blast points, didn't you?
CMOS sensors are not "required to detect light in every digital camera", they are but one way of doing it. As usual, Engadget authors can't be bothered with correctness. It's a good thing we know that the factory will be near Tokyo though.
Engadget said: "the complementary metal oxide semiconductors ...required to detect light in every digital camera."
EVERY digital camera? I don't think so. There are CCDs as well as Foveon sensors in cameras that do not use CMOS sensors at all. Might wanna update that.
Lance... Shhhh.
the world has enough factories.
Nobody cares about your myspacecollector....somewhat.
I hope that nobody in that factory, whilst working latre, gets struck by lightning thereby becoming some kind of monster.
Happens all the time in Japan, don't you know? It's something to do with the climate.