The world's largest high-Sensitivity CMOS sensor is measuring ~20 cm square. As such, a 20-cm-square sensor is the largest size that can be manufactured on 300mm wafer, and is equivalent to nearly 40 times the size of a 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor:
Canon has spent many years working to reduce the pixel size for CMOS sensors, making possible a pixel size of 2.2 µm for a total of approximately 120MP on a single sensor. The APS-H size (approx. 29 x 20 mm) CMOS sensor boasts approximately 7.5 times the number of pixels and 2.6 times the resolution of sensors of the same size featured in existing products. This sensor offers potential for a range of industrial applications, including cameras for shooting images for large-format poster prints, cameras for the image inspection of precision parts, aerospace cameras, and omnidirectional vision cameras.
Hmmm, what's new about that? It's over 8 years old now:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dpreview.com/articles/7964414898/canonlargestsensor
You are right, not much has changed since then. Canon publishes an info about the first customer for its giant sensor, new comparison picture alongside a DSLR, new promotional videos. Canon looks for a differentiation in its image sensor business and these are two examples of that.
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