409 news items tagged camera
Himax teams up with MediaTek, Megvii for 3D sensing solutions
Thursday 6 September 2018Himax Technologies has announced it is teaming up with fellow IC design company MediaTek and Megvii, a China-based facial recognition start-up, to offer active stereo camera (ASC)...
Canon unveils network camera ME20F-SHN
Tuesday 4 September 2018Canon has unveiled a high-end network camera, ME20F-SHN, in Taiwan. Equipped with a 35mm full-frame 2.26-megapixel CMOS sensor, a DIGIC DV 4 processor and smart video analytics, ME20F-SHN...
Adoption of multi-lens cameras by smartphones gaining momentum
Wednesday 22 August 2018The adoption of a triple-lens camera by Huawei on its latest flagship model, the Huawei P20 Pro, has kicked off a new round of hardware specs competition for smartphones focusing...
New MediaTek Helio A SoC brings AI to budget smartphones
Wednesday 18 July 2018MediaTek has unveiled its new Helio A SoC family for low-end to mid-range smartphones, with the first product of the series already adopted by Xiaomi.
Camera maker Brinno reports increased sales for June
Monday 9 July 2018Time-lapse camera maker Brinno saw its revenues expand 15.6% sequentially to NT$44.55 million (US$1.46 million) in June on increased sales of own-brand products.
Optical lens maker Newmax June revenues hit 51-month high
Friday 6 July 2018Optical lens maker Newmax Technology saw its revenues rally 42.4% sequentially and 127.1% on year to a 51-month high of NT$149 million (US$4.9 million) in June, buoyed by its integration...
Etron 3D sensor recognition modules adopted by Alibaba unmanned store
Tuesday 29 May 2018Taiwan-based IC designer Etron Technology has seen its newly launched 3D wide-angle sensor-based recognition modules adopted by Ant Financial, the online payment arm of e-commerce...
CMOS image sensor sales to hit another record high in 2018, says IC Insights
Thursday 10 May 2018The spread of digital camera applications in vehicles, machine vision, human recognition and security systems, as well as for more powerful camera phones will drive CMOS image sensor...
Micron rolls out edge storage solutions for video surveillance
Thursday 12 April 2018Micron Technology has announced general availability of the 128GB and 256GB density of edge storage microSD card solutions and collaboration with several leading video surveillance...
China smartphone vendors debut new models to tap high-end market
Monday 2 April 2018China smartphone vendors including Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi have lately launched their respective 2018 flagship devices boasting high price-performance ratios and multiple smart functions,...
Himax to fully acquire Emza
Friday 30 March 2018Himax technologies has decided to exercise its options to fully acquire Emza Visual Sense for an undisclosed sum, according to the Taiwan-based IC design house. The transaction is...
Galaxy S9+ materials cost US$43 more than previous versions, says IHS Markit
Friday 23 March 2018The new Samsung Galaxy S9+ equipped with 64GB of NAND flash memory (model number SM-G965U1) carries a bill of materials (BOM) cost of US$375.80, much higher than for previous versions...
New MediaTek AI chip to power upcoming Oppo, Meizu smartphones
Wednesday 14 March 2018MediaTek's recently-introduced Helio P60 mobile SoC that comes with AI capabilities has been adopted by Oppo and Meizu for their upcoming smartphone models, according to a report...
Camera maker Brinno sees impressive ODM, OBM sales growth
Tuesday 6 March 2018Taiwan-based time lapse camera maker Brinno has reported consolidated revenues of NT$29.487 million (US$1.007 million) for February 2018, representing a significant annual growth...
Samsung Galaxy 9 to be available on March 16
Tuesday 27 February 2018Samsung unveiled its new flagship Galaxy S9 smartphones on the eve of the official start of the 2018 Mobile World Congress (MWC) running February 26-March 1 in Barcelona, seeking...
Samsung looks to innovative S9 camera to energize Galaxy S smartphone sales, IHS says
Monday 26 February 2018At MWC 2018, Samsung launched the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus with an evolutionary design building on Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. Samsung is focusing on enhanced camera capabilities to differentiate...
Himax obtains nano 3D mastering tech assets and IP
Tuesday 30 January 2018Taiwan-based fabless IC firm Himax Technologies has announced the acquisition of certain advanced nano 3D masters manufacturing assets and related intellectual property and business...
Largan seeking huge damages from Ability in patent row
Tuesday 16 January 2018Taiwan top optical lens maker Largan Precision is seeking a supplementary civil compensation of NT$14 billion (US$473.82 million) from local rival Ability Opto-Electronics Technology...
Spreadtrum and OmniVision introduce turnkey active stereo 3D camera reference design for smartphones
Friday 12 January 2018OmniVision Technologies and Spreadtrum Communications have jointly announced what they call the industry's first turnkey active stereo 3D camera reference design for smartphones....
Digital camera makers see December revenues decrease sequentially
Thursday 11 January 2018Digital camera ODMs Asia Optical, Altek and Ability Enterprise have all reported sequential decreases in December consolidated revenues.
China camera module suppliers gaining ground in smartphone space
Tuesday 12 December 2017China-based suppliers of camera modules for smartphones such as O-film Technology and Holitech Technology have continued to expand their market share leveraging packaged module sales...
Taiwan market: Canon launches PowerShot G1 X Mark III
Tuesday 12 December 2017Canon has launched PowerShot G1 X Mark III, a digital bridge camera, in the Taiwan market at a recommended retail price of NT$33,990 (US$1,129).
Taiwan handsets – 3Q 2017
Tuesday 5 December 2017Shipments of Nokia-branded devices to HMD Global continued to buoy Taiwan's handset shipments in the third quarter of 2017. HMD's manufacturing partner, Foxconn, benefited most.
Austria chipmaker ams partners with China firm to develop 3D sensing camera solutions
Friday 17 November 2017Austria-based ams and China-based Ningbo Sunny Opotech, an optical image system solution provider, have announced a collaboration to jointly develop and market 3D sensing camera solutions...
More Android smartphone vendors to adopt 3D sensing for new models
Friday 17 November 2017Android smartphone vendors including Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi Technology are expected to equip 3D sensing functionality to their new models slated for launch in 2018, according to...
- Canon's cute-but-tough Ivy Rec camera hits stores later this month (Oct 10) - engadget
- Sony announces new ultra-fast A9 II camera for $4,500 (Oct 3) - The Verge
- Apple is becoming a camera company (Sep 15) - CNBC
- Hanwha Techwin to reduce use of HiSilicon chips (Jun 17) - Korea IT Times
- LG imagines a smartphone with no less than 16 camera lenses (Nov 27, 2018) - engadget
- Panasonic unveils the first 8K camera with an 'organic' sensor (Oct 30, 2018)
- Google reportedly acquiring VR camera company Lytro for its light field technology (Mar 20, 2018) - 9to5Google
- Qualcomm intros new Snapdragon 700 mobile platform series (Feb 27) - Company release
- Motorola to buy Canadian security camera maker Avigilon for C$1.2 billion (Feb 2) - Reuters
- Shuttered Chinese factory kicks off round 2 in Nikon restructuring - Nikkei Asian Review