Next bad news: Kumamoto sensor factory will be fully operational in August only!

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For the third time this week we got a bad news from Sony (Links to bad news one and bad news two):

Today Sony CEO Hirai said that the Sony Kumamoto sensor factory will gain the 100% full production capability in August only (via DC.watch). This means the factory had a stop (or partial stop) of over 4 months. This surely will affect the original camera release roadmap. Sony A5300, new RX cameras, new A7 cameras and the A9 may be released much later than planed by Sony.

Sony also released the full Corporate Strategy Meeting FY2016 press text. There is no detailed info about the digital camera business. The only info is the changed forecast. Sony expects less sales in the imaging products segment but at the same time the operating income margin will increase. Here are the full data:

Sony-forecast

While I expect Sony to still announce some exciting products at Photokina it may will take til early 2017 before the new cameras will ship…

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