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Yole on Mobile CIS Market: China becomes an image sensor land

By sensing-aiot November 1, 2021Image Sensing, Market Invest

Yole Developpement publishes “Smartphone flagship battle from sensors to modules to image quality — Webcast” China seems to become an image sensor land: 3 out of 10 largest semiconductor companies are designing…

Sony SWIR Sensor : smallest pixel size

By sensing-aiot November 1, 2021Image Sensing

Product / Technology Interview “SWIR Image Sensor” October 27 2021 Sony publishes an interview with its SWIR InGaAs stacked sensor designers. Few quotes: “…the miniaturization of SWIR image sensors had…

CMOS image sensors market update

By sensing-aiot May 10, 2021Image Sensing, Market Invest

Nowadays, the improvement of smartphone image effects highly depends on the technological innovation and upgrade of CMOS image sensors. Even if it can leverage the later algorithms to save a…

Xiaomi Phones’ New Lens: Wafer-Level Glass and Liquid Lens

By sensing-aiot May 5, 20215G/Mobile, Market Invest, Optics

AAC Wafer-Level Glass+Plastic Lens in Xiaomi Redmi K40 GE Phone PRNewswire: Xiaomi’s Redmi K40 Gaming Edition is the first mobile phone to incorporate a Wafer Level Glass (WLG) hybrid camera lens.…

iPhone 12 Pro Max Rear Camera Reverse Engineering

By sensing-aiot April 28, 20215G/Mobile, Image Sensing

SystemPlus publishes a reverse engineering of Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max rear camera. One can see a high density of AF pixels on the SEM picture below:

Ambarella : focus on automotive and security cameras

By sensing-aiot April 28, 2021Image Sensing, Market Invest

A March 2021 Ambabella presentation quotes interesting market data on automotive and security cameras:

Prophesee Event Driven Sensors

By sensing-aiot April 24, 2021Image Sensing, Market Invest

Prophesee publishes 3 presentations at HannoverMesse site: 1, 2, 3. Few slides from the presentations:

Apple’s 2021 iPhone: 48MP main camera?

By sensing-aiot April 17, 20215G/Mobile, Image Sensing, Market Invest

TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has indicated that Apple’s 2H21 iPhone line up will consist of two 6.1” iPhones and two 6.7” iPhones. The premium model is expected to gain…

Image Sensor: Sony vs. Samsung vs. OVT

By sensing-aiot April 7, 2021Image Sensing, Market Invest

According to Strategy Analytics, the global smartphone image sensor market recorded total revenue of USD15B in 2020, up by 13% YoY. Sony managed to take the top position in the…

CMOS Image Sensor Market Update and Forecast till 2027

By sensing-aiot March 31, 2021Image Sensing, Market Invest

Yole Developpement publishes an updated report on CIS market: “ In 2020 the segment was worth $20.7B, exceeding 4.7% of total semiconductor industry sales. This segment has made Sony a…