Hi Peter,
A quick Google reveals that they did have CCD manufacturing taking
place at other wafer lines in Japan and elsewhere including on lines that
had 300mm wafers.
For example, see this map that Sony released January 29 2014 that marks CCD wafer lines -
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201401/14-016E/
On Feb 18 2015 they announced their ICX816AQG, a 6.84M-effective pixel color CCD image sensor targeted at low light applications such as traffic
monitoring. See -
http://www.sony.net/Products/SC-HP/n.../icx816_e.html
It may transpire they are simply closing an aging 200mm wafer line
and with it EOL'ing the devices that happened to be manufactured there.
I would check with your Sony parts supplier to determine if the specific parts
you were ordering will be affected.
Recent article here about their Pregius global shutter CMOS sensors -
http://www.imveurope.com/features/fe...feature_id=280
Best regards
Gary