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Sony official image sensor distributor in Europe and North America Framos kindly sent me the update on the CCD discontinuation plans:Dear Valued Customer,
in addition to our first SONY CCD discontinuation information please here find the latest updated and final information about the process how to make sure you can continue to buying SONY CCDs and also benefit from SONY’s extended purchasing timeline.
In the attachment you’ll find the official “SONY CCD Discontinuation Revised Plan” and the final “SONY CCD EOL Product List (as of 17 Apr 2015)”.
As a result of our customers’ and our own efforts and given feedback, SONY was able to postpone the last time shipment date to March 2026 for high running products (A-Rank) marked in yellow color in the attached list, and additionally a couple of more products have been included in the A-Rank list. Like the earlier announcement, all non-yellow marked products will have a last-time-buy/shipment date of March 2020.
In case you continue to buying a high runner product (yellow-marked), the timeline is the following:
- submit a first draft forecast by quantity, part number and year until end of Aug 2015
- submit an non-binding accurate forecast to us by end of Mar 2016
- based on this forecast SONY will produce wafers and will store these in their wafer cage (shut-down of wafer production: end of Mar 2017)
- products will be freshly assembled and tested upon customers’ orders until Mar 2026
- last order to be submitted end of Sep 2025 for shipments until Mar 2026
In case you continue to buying non-yellow marked products (“low-runner part”), the timeline is slightly different from the above and has been specified in the attached products list. Please make yourself familiar with the deadlines depending on the part number and take appropriate actions similar to the above procedure list.
Finally, if you will have submitted your forecasts in Aug 2015 and Mar 2016, FRAMOS will support all your purchase orders with a lead time of 10 - 12 weeks max (depending on SONY’s availability to ship right in time).
Our FRAMOS sales force will contact you within the next weeks to assist you and your company in the last-time-buy process and make sure your demand will be secured under all circumstances. For all questions or needs you can contact us under sales@framos.com and you’ll receive our feedback within 24 hours – guaranteed!
On behalf of FRAMOS I would like to thank you for being our customer and we do hope we can be of any help for your future new imaging projects!
Best regards,
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Axel Krepil
Sales Director Sensor +
Axel Krepil also kindly sent me a large Excel file with the part number and discontinuation dates list. I'm still trying to figure out how to post it, as it's quite large.
Update: Thanks to DG for conversion the part list to the pictures. Framos says that the Excel file will be available on their web site soon.
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