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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Chipworks on Sony Sensors

Chipworks blog has an interesting post about Sony's latest pixel generation, also mentioning just announced BSI pixels.

The article shows a page from Sony's presentation claiming it leads the industry in 1.4um pixel mass production. The presentation says that Sony's 3MP 1.4um pixel SoC sensor is in mass production now.

The post discusses reverse engineered pixels from 3 Sony sensors, including IMX021 APS-C-sized 25MP DSLR sensor, shown below:



Update, Sep. 16, 2008: The presentation mentioned above is from Sony site, dated by Feb 2008. It claims that Sony holds 75% of 5MP and higher image sensor market. The slide from the presentation shows Sony plans and also 3MP SOC with 1.4um pixels.

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