Continued uptake of cameras in mobile phones and notebook PCs is driving growth in the image sensor market, reports In-Stat. The research firm says worldwide unit shipments of image sensors in camera phones continue to rise - driven largely by the popularity in Asian markets of phones with dual cameras that provide two-way video communication.
Camera phones comprised nearly 81 percent of area-array image sensor shipments in 2008. That share is expected to shrink slightly through 2013.
In-Stat also says that cameras embedded in laptop PCs will surpass still cameras "to become the second-largest application for image sensors by 2011."
CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) sensors dominated image sensor shipments in 2008 with more than an 87 percent share. While CMOS is gaining in digital still cameras, it will not surpass CCDs (charge-coupled devices) until 2013. However, CMOS will make up 62 percent of security camera image sensors by 2013, In-Stat predicts.
April 13, 2009
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