SiBeam, a developer of millimeter wave chipsets and platforms, has received a strategic investment from Panasonic and Samsung for the continued development of SiBeam’s WirelessHD semiconductor products, reports EE Times. SiBeam’s CMOS chipsets operate in the 60-GHz band and transfer data at up to 4-Gbits per second. They are designed for the streaming of uncompressed and

Since the initial introduction of the camera phone, at the turn of the millennium, the advancement in this technology has been staggering. With the pending launch of the Samsung Innov8 i8510 with an 8 megapixel (mp) camera we are seeing the speed of this innovation and advancement first hand. The first camera phone only had a 110,000-pixel CMOS image sensor, and it was not until 2003 that the indu...

New type 1/2.5 CMOS image sensor "Exmor for use in camera enabled mobile phones.

More on Esato, Razec mentions the specification of his Sony Ericsson XPERIA concept phone. Codenamed as Sora, the mid-end Xperia concept phone would have multimedia/web mode, Windows Mobile 7, and a 1 GHz Qualcomm QSD8250 CPU as the core. The camera on its back looks impressive and has 12 megapixels Exmor CMOS sensor. Great job Razec! [via

Shutters have come down on the latest CMOS image sensor by Sony, with an all new highest megapixel snap coming into focus. Ahhh, camera puns – there’s no better way to waste a word count. Seriously though, Sony has just put the wraps on a 12.25 megapixel CMOS Image Sensor named ‘Exmor’ for their upcoming mobile

Backend service provider Kingpak Technology, a member of the Kingmax Group, has set a goal to expand its monthly capacity for CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging and testing from 2-3 million units to the four million mark, according to the company. Sales from the CIS packaging segment account for 60-70% of Kingpak's total revenues at present, said the company. Less concentration on memory packaging ...

Filed under: News : Mobile Phones Sony has announced the worlds first effective 12 megapixel CMOS type lens.

Sony Corporation today announced the commercialization of “IMX060PQ”, a new type 1/2.5 CMOS image sensor “Exmor” for use in camera enabled mobile phones that leverages Sony’s proprietary formation technology to realize the industry’s smallest unit cell size (1.4µm), and the industry’s highest pixel count (12.25 effective megapixel resolution). “...

Sony today announced the commercialization of “IMX060PQ”, a new type 1/2.5 CMOS image sensor “Exmor” for use in camera enabled mobile phones which has a 12.25 effective megapixel resolution. Furthermore, Sony will also commercialize “IU060F”, a type 1/3.2 lens module with 12.25 effective megapixel resolution, and “IU046F”, a type 1/3.2 lens...

These days mobile phones with 8 mega pixel snapper are becoming common with companies like Samsung and Sony Ericsson launching them every now and then. Recently, Sony announced the new Exmor CMOS sensor with a capability of 12 mega pixels. This CMOS censor will soon be seen in future mobile phones. Now you know which company will be dying to get a mobile phone with a 12 mega pixel snapper out. But...