Strategy Analytics on H1 2021 Smartphone CIS Market

Strategy Analytics estimates that Sony has captured 42% smartphone CIS market share in H1 2021 and 41% in Q2 2021. The whole smartphone CIS market grew 10% YoY in H1:

"The global smartphone Image sensor market in H1 2021 clocked a total revenue of $7 billion.

This Strategy Analytics research report finds that the smartphone image sensor market managed to record a revenue growth of more than 10 percent year-over-year in H1 2021.

The report estimates that the top three vendors took almost 80 percent revenue share in the global smartphone image sensor market in H1 2021.

Jeffrey Mathews, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics says, “The image sensor vendors witnessed an accelerated momentum from smartphone OEMs, who actively adopted high-resolution CIS and low-pixel CIS products for multicamera applications, to secure inventory and cater to pent-up demand. Sony, Samsung and OmniVision supplied key high-resolution CIS products to leading smartphone OEMs in H1 2021.”

Stephen Entwistle , Vice President of the Strategic Technologies Practice at Strategy Analytics commented, “The introduction of new high-resolution and large format CIS products from the major vendors are expected to boost the revenue opportunities in the market. However, we note that the supply fluctuations of various high-pixel and low pixel CIS products continue to challenge the growth prospects of the smartphone image sensor market.”