Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Image Sensor Trends Article

Don Scansen from reverse engineering company Semiconductor Insights published a market trends overview in Video/Imaging Designline.
Covering wide range of issues, from camera-module footprint and hight to price and ISP integration trade-offs, the article gives a birds-eye view on many controversial problems in image sensor design.

Some points to note:

- a modern image sensor process is almost twice more expensive than standard CMOS
- sensor-ISP integration is less cost-optimal than baseband-ISP integration in camera-phones
- 1MP camera-phone module costs about $7-8 to build.

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