Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The 8 Megapixel Camera Phone: Coming Soon!

OmniVision Develops Sensor To Improve Camera Phones


By William M. Bulkeley


Companies Featured in This Article: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing


In a development that may provide a significant improvement in camera-phone picture quality, semiconductor maker OmniVision Technologies Inc. said it has developed a "radically different" image sensor that can squeeze many more pixels on a tiny chip.


OmniVision, which last year became the leading supplier of image sensors for the world's handset makers, said it expects eight-megapixel sensors will start appearing in high-end phones in 2009. Currently, almost all camera phones have sensors of three megapixels or less.

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