Sony reportedly considering jointly building a chip factory in Japan • Eurogamer.net

Sony is reportedly considering jointly setting up a chip manufacturing unit in Japan.

Reuters documented on a Nikkei tale that statements Sony and Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s greatest deal chipmaker, are speaking about a partnership to develop a chip factory in Japan, with the authorities evidently up for spending some of the financial commitment of about 800bn yen (£5.24bn).

The plant would pump out semiconductors for vehicles, camera graphic sensors and other goods hit by the international chip shortage, and would be up and functioning by 2024, Nikkei reported.

Apparently TSMC is worried about the concentration of chipmaking capability in Taiwan underneath the shadow of China.

Manufacturing of online video video game consoles has been hit by the world wide chip lack, with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo influenced. The manufacture of graphics cards has also been hampered.

Past 7 days, Xbox manager Phil Spencer told The Wrap that console shortages would proceed into 2024 – whilst a shortage of chips wasn’t the only situation hindering the availability of the Xbox Series X and S.

Final thirty day period, chip maker Toshiba told Bloomberg (paywall) the provide of chips would remain “really limited” until at minimum September next yr – and possibly till 2024.

In July, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan told Reuters it would be “some time” in advance of the company is equipped to satisfy demand for the PlayStation 5, admitting the chip lack “is surely a problem that we are all navigating”.

Even with this, PS5 is the fastest-promoting PlayStation ever globally, with 10m sold.