Samsung may have left the camera game behind, but the company is serious about increasing its share of the image sensor market and stealing some business away from Sony. In fact, they're about to spend over $800 million to ramp up image sensor production yet again.
Sony today unveiled the world's very first image sensors that have artificial intelligence capabilities built-in. The sensors are capable of processing captured images and extracting intelligent metadata at high speeds.
Activist investor Daniel Loeb is reportedly using the current low stock prices to build a bigger stake in Sony and "push for changes," including spinning off the brand's image sensor business into a separate entity called Sony Technologies.
An intriguing, and surprisingly plausible, rumor is flying around the smartphone world this week claiming that Samsung will be releasing an "almost 1-inch" sized 150MP ISOCELL CMOS sensor, and that this sensor could show up in a smartphone as soon as Q4 of 2020.
DxOMark have published their results after testing the sensor inside Sony's (relatively) new a9 Mark II, and despite sporting the exact same chip as its predecessor, the Sony a9, the Mark II somehow managed to get a higher score.
After unveiling the Galaxy S20 Ultra with its monstrous (or ridiculous?) 108MP image sensor, Samsung has decided to pull back the curtain and reveal some details about this chip and the technology that made it possible.
Sigma's full-frame mirrorless camera with a Foveon image sensor has been sent "back to the drawing board" and delayed indefinitely. In an update posted to the brand's website, Sigma's CEO apologized for the delay, saying that he was "not in a position to offer any specific release plan."
Self-described "maker" and YouTuber Sean Hodgins of Idle Hands Development recently took on a DIY project that's way beyond most of us mere mortals: he built his very own, working, 1-Kilopixel image sensor. Take that Sony!
Sony semiconductor simply can't keep up with the soaring demand for its mobile image sensors. In a recent interview, head of Sony's semiconductor unit Terushi Shimizu revealed that the company is struggling to keep up, despite running its factories 24 hours per day over the holidays for the second year running.
The image sensor industry just lost another big name as Sony continues toward global domination. Panasonic is reportedly tapping out by selling its money-bleeding chipmaking business to a Taiwanese tech company.
Sony is working hard to keep its image sensor supremacy. The company is planning to show off two new image sensors at the 2019 International Electronic Devices Meeting (IEDM) that should have photographers excited: a 3-layer organic image sensor that will require no demosaicing, and "the world’s first all PDAF CMOS image sensor."
Yesterday, Sony quietly released the specs for a new 47MP Micro Four Thirds image sensor that it claims is for "Surveillance, FA cameras and Industrial cameras." But the image sensor—which can record 10-bit 8K/30p video with a with a 17:9 crop—might actually show up in the successor to the Panasonic GH5S.
As promised in its teaser from a few weeks ago, Xiaomi has become the first manufacturer to release a smartphone with Samsung's crazy 108MP image sensor inside. The newly announced Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha 5G concept phone uses the ultra-high-res image sensor and a wrap-around "surround screen" that is a sight to behold.
Less than a week after Xiaomi teased an upcoming smartphone with a whopping 108MP of resolution, Samsung has officially unveiled the image sensor that will power the pocket-sized beast. Meet the Samsung ISOCELL Bright HMX: the world's first 100MP+ smartphone image sensor.
Like it or not, much of the conversation around image quality these days revolves around sensor size. When Sony announced the a7R IV, it boasted image quality that “rivaled medium format.” When people defend Micro Four Thirds, they show off their ultra-portable system and claim the images are “indistinguishable from full-frame.”
Earlier today at the company's "Images of the Future" conference, Xiaomi dropped a bombshell. According to a tweet on the official Xiaomi account, they've teamed up with Samsung to develop a smartphone with a 108MP "ultra-clear" image sensor!
Sony recently published the spec sheets for six of its full-frame sensors, including a quad-bayer version of the 61MP chip found inside the Sony a7R IV. Given the ubiquity of Sony's BSI-CMOS sensors, it's possible we'll see tweaked versions of these sensors in some next generation full-frame cameras.
Remember the Nikon D600 sensor dust issue? The problem—and resulting service advisory—dominated the headlines for a couple of years, from the time the issue first surfaced in 2012 until Nikon announced it would fix all D600s for free in 2014. But it seems that free service is finally coming to a close.
As Sony's mirrorless cameras continue to grow in stature and market share in the photo industry, Sony's dominance in the imaging sensor market gives it a big advantage. At least, that's what major imaging sensor competitor TowerJazz believes.
One of Sony's crown jewels in its empire is its image sensor business, which dominates global market share and has helped the company hit record profits. But now a famous investor is calling for Sony to spin-off the sensor business into a completely independent company.
Samsung just announced the world's first 64-megapixel smartphone camera sensor, less than a year after Sony made waves with its groundbreaking 48-megapixel smartphone sensor.
Apple has quietly acquired Invisage, the camera sensor startup company behind QuantumFilm, according to a new report.
The development of curved image sensors may be the biggest advance in camera technology in decades, allowing for simpler, flatter lenses with larger apertures as well as dramatically better image quality. Canon, Nikon, and Sony are working on the technology, and now Microsoft Research has developed a sensor with three times more curvature than previously achieved.
Sony is pluming the depths of stacked sensor technology and uncovering all sorts of amazing gems—the a9's 20fps capabilities, the Xperia XZ's 960fps slow motion feature, and now, an industrial sensor that can recognize and track objects at an insane 1,000fps.
Four engineers who pioneered the creation of digital image sensors have been awarded this year's prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize, which comes with a hefty £1 million award. The prize is considered to be one of the world's most prestigious in the field of engineering.
'Spray and Pray' photography is being taken to as yet un-dreamt-of heights thanks to a new sensor from CMOSIS. This full-frame sensor not only packs 48MP worth of resolution, it can apparently capture 8K video at 40fps, and 4K at 60.
Getting the best possible performance at the edges of a flat camera sensor is tough, but a new patent from Canon shows how the Japanese company is planning to tackle this problem in future Canon image sensors.
Sony's juggernaut image sensor business may soon grow even more thanks to a name brand acquisition. The company is reportedly finalizing a deal with Toshiba to buy its sensor business for about $164 million.
Canon today announced that it has created a monster of a CMOS sensor with the world's highest pixel count (for its size). The DSLR-format sensor manages to capture gigantic 250-megapixel photos with each exposure.
Olympus researchers have created an innovative new "3D stacked" CMOS image sensor that has both global-shutter and high-speed capturing modes. It is able to capture photos at up to 10000 frames per second.