Sony Laptop Battery Problems
Sony laptop fujitsu fpcbp155 battery problems led the half-year operating profit plunged
Japan’s Sony Corporation 26, Xinhua reported, as the world’s major PC makers to recall Sony manufactured notebook computer lithium batteries, 2006, the first half of fiscal year (April to September of this year), the company’s operating profit plunged 90.9 year on year %, to 62.2 billion yen (one U.S. dollars approximately ¥ 119).
Showed a profit, Sony Group’s production of LCD TVs and digital cameras sales strong. Affected by the first half of this fiscal year, Sony’s sales revenue grew by about 10%, or about 3.6 trillion yen.
Because Sony manufactured notebook computers fujitsu fpcbp155ap overheat and catch fire risks on a global scale is the total number of recalled batteries are expected to reach 9.6 million. This incident led Sony to recall bear the more than 500 billion yen in costs.
Sony also lowered the company’s 2006 fiscal year (ending March 2007) had a profit forecast. Company’s net profit to fall to ¥ 80,000,000,000, compared with the previous fiscal year fell 35%; operating profit of 500 billion yen, compared with the previous fiscal year decreased by 78%.
Earlier at a press conference, Sony’s vice president Yutaka Nakagawa for the first time on the notebook computer batteries and related services to the customers all public apology.
“Battery Door” storm undetermined Sony will again be the United States judicial investigation
Also caught “the battery door” of the Sony company has heard bad news fujitsu S26391-F6120-L470, Sony said Tuesday, because of SRAM (static random access memory) market alleged existence of monopolistic behavior, its U.S. subsidiary is receiving the U.S. Department of Justice investigation.
Sony said in a statement, the U.S. Justice Department asked the company to the Ministry of Justice is currently providing detailed data on Sony’s SRAM business. Sony said it would fully cooperate with the U.S. Department of Justice investigation, but declined to disclose details of the investigation.
SRAM chips provide high-speed data transfer is a kind of memory chips, are widely used in networking, telecommunications and computer and other electronic devices with fujitsu SMP-EFS-SS-22E-06. This year in October, the U.S. Justice Department has announced SRAM suppliers to investigate anti-competitive behavior. The agency with the Cypress, Mitsubishi Electric and Samsung made contact.
Recently, Sony has been due to laptop battery recalls, new product and other problems delayed the release of wrangling, the investigation of the SRAM, the company will undoubtedly face more trouble. Earlier South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and other companies for Fujitus Battery, but had conspired to have been charged the price of DRAM and eventually fined more than 731 million U.S. dollars.
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