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In sensors, too much is not enough

Sony recently announced the IMX586 stacked CMOS image sensor for smartphone cameras featuring 48 effective megapixels[1], and claiming to be the industry’s highest pixel count. The new product achieved a world-first (according to Sony research) ultra-compact pixel size of 0.8 μm The IMX586 is surprisingly tiny given its megapixel count. (Source: Sony) onto a 1/2-type (8.0 mm diagonal) unit, thereby ...

Jon Peddie

Sony recently announced the IMX586 stacked CMOS image sensor for smartphone cameras featuring 48 effective megapixels[1], and claiming to be the industry’s highest pixel count. The new product achieved a world-first (according to Sony research) ultra-compact pixel size of 0.8 μm The IMX586 is surprisingly tiny given its megapixel count. (Source: Sony) onto a 1/2-type (8.0 mm diagonal) unit, thereby providing enhanced imaging for smartphone cameras.  Sony says the new sensor will appear in 2019 smartphones. This sensor will take the megapixel title from Nokia’s famous 41-megapixel camera in the 808 PureView and the 40-megapixel camera found in Huawei’s P20
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