Sunday, April 18, 2021
Samsung is Rumored to Stop Pixel Size Race
Huawei and BAIC Announce Self-Driving Car
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Review of MoS2 Based Photodetectors
Omron Touchless Buttons and Face Recognition
Friday, April 16, 2021
Dongbu Hitek Announces Development of BSI GS Pixel and SPAD
TSMC Fab 14 Power Outage Might Impact Sony CIS Production
TrendForce publishes its analysis of the April 14th power outage at TSMC Fab 14 Phase 7:
"TSMC’s Fab14 P7 in the Southern Taiwan Science Park suffered a power outage on April 14th. The cause of the power outage was an accidental damage of an underground power cable during construction work nearby.
The diesel uninterruptible power supply (DUPS) of the facility kicked in instantly when the power cable was cut, but there was still a short period of power interruption and voltage drop. As a result, some of the equipment systems in the facility temporarily experienced operational irregularity or malfunction. Based on past experiences with this type of incident, TrendForce believes that it will take 2-7 days to recalibrate the equipment systems so that they can return to normal operation.
...the Fab14 P7 facilities contain 45/40nm and 16/12nm production lines, and the outage will primarily impair end products including smartphones and automobiles
TrendForce further indicates that ... CIS logic products (manufactured at the 45/40nm nodes) are bearing the brunt of the outage’s impact... In particular, Sony CIS 40nm Logic products are primarily supplied for high-end smartphones."
DxOMark Analyzer 7.4 Adds Raw File and LED Flicker Mitigation Tests
Pamtek Presents ToF Module Testing Systems
Trendforce Forecasts 5B Camera Modules in 2021
Thursday, April 15, 2021
ST Aims to Embed its ToF into Every Power Switch
ON Semi and Ambarella Promote FaceID Access Solution
ON Semi publishes a promotional video "Smart Access Control with AR0237IR":
Gigajot Achieves 0.19e- Readout Noise in 16.7MP Sensor
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Tesla Self Driving Becomes Camera-Only, Abandons Radar
Almost ready with FSD Beta V9.0. Step change improvement is massive, especially for weird corner cases & bad weather. Pure vision, no radar.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2021
Teslarati adds more Elon Musk's tweets:Remove
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2021
When radar and vision disagree, which one do you believe? Vision has much more precision, so better to double down on vision than do sensor fusion.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2021
These things are best thought of as probabilities. There are 5 forward-facing cameras. It is highly likely that at least one of them will see multiple cars ahead.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2021
Smartsens Presents "Blue Ocean of Market Opportunities" for 3K Video
Omnivision Announces Nvidia Drive-Qualified Automotive Sensors
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Reuters about ON Semi Automotive Supply Chain
High Speed Counting SPADs
Samsung to Manufacture Image Sensors at UMC
TheElec: Samsung has recently signed a contract for UMC to manufacture Samsung’s image sensors in Taiwan, according Taiwan Economic Daily.
As a part of the deal, Samsung is selling about 400 units of fab equipment to UMC to be installed at USMC's P6 fab at Nanke and used in the sensor manufacturing. UMC expects to produce 27,000 28nm wafers per month at the fab starting sometime in 2023.
The Taiwan Economic Daily says the P6 fab will mostly manufacture chips for Samsung.
Samsung sees high demand for its image sensors, but it has suffering from a shortage in production capacity. The new Samsung-UMC deal somewhat mirrors Sony-TSMC one, although Sony probably had different reasons for going to TSMC for advanced processes.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Smartsens Announces 2nd Generation DSI Pixel Technology
- sensitivity and chroma improvements by 15% and 20% respectively
- through the use of PixGainTM Technology, the full well capacity has more than doubled with enhanced MaxSNR and HDR efficiency
- additionally, the SC233A supports HDR video at 60 fps.
- the new sensors are first products launched by Smartsense with the new China domestic supply chain partners. More products are to follow
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Actlight Dynamic PhotoDiode Integrated into Foundry Process
Friday, April 09, 2021
LiDAR News: ON Semi, LeddarTech, Velodyne, Insight, Baraja
Disruptive Inventions in Particle Physics Imaging
Erik Heijne from CERN presented "Disruptive Inventions: Considerations for ECFA Detector R&D Roadmap" at ECFA Detector R&D Roadmap Symposium in March 2021:
Kanematsu Futuretech CIS Packaging
Thursday, April 08, 2021
One More Attempt of Holy Grail Color Router - Splitter
- Color splitters focus and sort light into pixels without any absorptive losses
- New single-material splitters are designed to sit directly on a CMOS sensor surface
- Splitters with four or more layers show significant improvements over filters
- Color-corrected and nearly lossless greyscale imaging can be done with one splitter