Sony augmente la sortie de la caméra 3D après l'intérêt des fabricants de téléphones

Sony Corp., le plus grand fabricant de puces d'appareil photo utilisées dans les smartphones, augmente la production de capteurs 3D de nouvelle génération après avoir suscité l'intérêt de clients, dont Apple Inc.

Les puces alimenteront avant- et des caméras 3D orientées vers l'arrière de modèles de plusieurs fabricants de smartphones dans 2019, with Sony kicking off mass production in late summer to meet demand, according to Satoshi Yoshihara, head of Sony’s sensor division. He declined to provide sales or production targets, but said the 3D business is already operating profitably and will make an impact on earnings from the fiscal year starting in April.

Sony’s bullish outlook for 3D cameras provides much needed optimism to the global smartphone industry, which is suffering a slowdown as consumers find fewer reasons to upgrade devices. The Tokyo-based company has started providing software toolkits to outside developers so they can experiment with the chips and create apps that generate models of faces for communication or virtual objects for online shopping.

(Excerpted from Bloomberg.)