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P30 Pro has a Sony camera chip, like almost all other "superphones"
Sony was making more money on smartphone chips than on the regular camera sensors.
Now, Eliot Management probably made them to shoot themselves in the foot:
1. The consumer product unit will now not be able to finance the RnD to push the tech forward. Imagine Sony cameras with Chinese CCDs.
2. On the opposite, without strong incentive to do loss making RnD, the IC unit will become just another commodity component maker
3. Asian companies tend to not to survive "financial engineering" style manoeuvres you see in America
P30 Pro has a Sony camera chip, like almost all other "superphones"
Sony was making more money on smartphone chips than on the regular camera sensors.
Now, Eliot Management probably made them to shoot themselves in the foot:
1. The consumer product unit will now not be able to finance the RnD to push the tech forward. Imagine Sony cameras with Chinese CCDs.
2. On the opposite, without strong incentive to do loss making RnD, the IC unit will become just another commodity component maker
3. Asian companies tend to not to survive "financial engineering" style manoeuvres you see in America