Sony started growing CMOS picture sensors in 1996, and in 2000, the primary business Sony IMX001 sensor was launched. Greater than twenty years have handed and the Japanese firm controls 46% of the picture sensor market, reaching spectacular outcomes over the previous time.

Its sensors are readily bought and put in in smartphones. For instance, the well-known Sony IMX766 is at the moment adopted by greater than 100 fashions available on the market. Recall that the optical format of this sensor is 1/1.56″ and the scale of every pixel is 1.00 microns. The bigger the sensor and the pixel dimension, the extra mild it will possibly seize.

Final yr, Sony launched the Xperia PRO-I smartphone, which featured an inch sensor with section detection autofocus. True, it later turned out that this sensor was extra advertising than sensible. It turned out that its potential is used solely by 60%. The corporate didn’t conceal it, declaring on its web site that the share of really used space is just 60% of the entire space.

Sony is engaged on the most important picture sensor

Now Sony is working and testing a brand new sensor, the most important within the trade. Its decision might be 50-megapixels with an optical format of 1/1.1 inches. It’s doable that we’re speaking concerning the mysterious Sony IMX8XX sensor, details about which has already appeared on the community. Rumor has it that we are going to see a brand new sensor sooner or later flagships of Xiaomi, Huawei and Vivo.

Technique Analytics has revealed the outcomes of a examine of the worldwide marketplace for picture sensors for smartphone cameras. There’s certainly a giant demand within the trade for high-resolution sensors and multi-module digital camera programs.

In 2021, there are estimations that the market quantity in financial phrases reached $15.1 billion, which is roughly 3% greater than the consequence for 2020. Furthermore, within the final quarter of final yr, progress amounted to greater than 10%.

Sony is the most important provider of picture sensors for cellular machine cameras. Final yr, this firm occupied nearly half of the world market – 45% in financial phrases.

In second place is Samsung with a share of roughly 26%. Rounding out the highest three is OmniVision, which controls 11% of the trade. Thus, the highest three suppliers occupy 82-83% of the market. All different gamers collectively management solely 17% of the trade in financial phrases.

Analysts predict that large-format and high-resolution sensors might be key market drivers for the foreseeable future. Nonetheless, we are going to uncover extra on this regard within the upcoming few months.