Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has received few orders from imaging sensor supplier OmniVision in December, which is a sign of the client's pessimistic outlook for the handset market in the first quarter of 2009, according to industry sources. MediaTek's sharp decline in November sales also shows that the white-box handset market in China is good as it was in the first three

Seti, a Korea-based CMOS image sensor maker, has succeeded in expanding its CMOS image sensor market share in China to 50%, according to market watchers. Seti's monthly shipments of VGA-resolution CMOS image sensors for white-box handsets in China have climbed to 10 million units, putting pressure on OmniVision, according to the watchers. In addition to handset applications, Seti has secured order...

Scalado had a small booth inside Texas Instruments’ one at the Symbian Smartphones Show in London. Both companies focused heavily on displays and camera. Scalado, Texas Instruments, and OmniVision have partnered up to bring a solution which provides 20 frames/second instant full-resolution image handling, as well as ‘zero shutter lag’, burst-mode image capture, and instant

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The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.

Casio puts a huge display and an 8 megapixel Omnivision camera in its Exilim clamshell.

The Exilim-branded Casio / Hitachi phone has an 8 MP camera and potential for Omnivision sensor technology.

DragonWave has announced that Omnivision has standardized on it for licensed-frequency wireless backhaul as it expands its WiMAX service offering into markets across Venezuela.

CMOS image sensor developer, OmniVision Technologies has launched a novel sensor design that adopts a radically different approach to traditional CMOS image sensor technology.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - OmniVision's new image sensor wants to increase the number of pixels on your cell phone without increasing its profile.