SONY image sensor third quarter revenue increased by three percent year on year

Set the micro-network news, Sony 31 days after the announcement in the last quarter earnings report: due to image sensors and other semiconductor sales ram, with PS4 game sales to promote Yang, boost the combined revenue over the same period last year increased by 22.1% to 2 trillion 622 billion yen, consolidated profits over the same period last year soared 346.4% to 2,042 billion yen, consolidated profit jump jump 26 times (up 2,627%) to 130.9 billion yen.

In the last quarter, revenue for the Sony mobile device business (MC business; smartphone) grew 1.9% to 1,720 billion yen over the same period last year, with revenue loss of 2.5 billion yen (for the same period last year) Billion yen).

Game & Network Services (G & NS) revenue rose 35.4% to 433.2 billion yen, with revenue jumping 188.3% to 54.8 billion yen.

Revenue growth of 15.8% to 156.7 billion yen for the digital imaging & solution business (IP & S; Imaging Products & Solution); and YYYY increased 27.0% to 18.9 billion yen.

Revenue increased 28.1% to 300.9 billion yen in the Home Entertainment & Sounds business (HE & S business; products including LCD TVs, players, home audio and MP3 players).

Revenue from the semiconductor business (including products such as CMOS image sensors and camera modules) grew 17.9% YoY to 228.8 billion yen due to a surge in sales of image sensors for mobile devices, with a YoY margin of 49.4 billion yen (a decrease of 4.2 billion yen from a year earlier) ).

In the semiconductor business, image sensor sales soared 33% over the same period last year to 176.8 billion yen.

Sony will increase its sales target for the year 2017 to 6,800 billion yen, up 24 percent from the original estimate of 6,600 billion yen.