DRAM maker Nanya Technology has been in talks with CMOS image sensor (CIS) designers Aptina Imaging, Himax Imaging, Omnivision and Pixart Imaging for the possible release of foundry...
Taiwan-based IC design house Ene Technology is expected to ship more than 10 million notebook keyboard sensors in 2009, up about nine times from the volume in 2008, according to industry...
In 2009, 1.3 billion image sensors, including both CCD and CMOS varieties, will be shipped worldwide, according to iSuppli. In 2012, the market will cross the two billion-unit thre...
Pixart Imaging, the sensor supplier for the Nintendo Wii, may raise its third-quarter financial forecast thanks to the recently announced price reduction of the games console, market...
IC distributor Sunnic Technology & Merchandise saw revenues of NT$501 million in August, the highest level in three years, and it swung to profits driven by increased orders for...
China's white-box handset makers have turned to use electronic sensors made by local companies instead of first-tier IDMs' MEMS sensors for their new products due to cost concern...
OmniVision has launched the OV2710, a native 1080p CMOS image sensor designed to deliver high-definition video conferencing and recording for camcorders, notebooks, netbooks, and...
The market for image sensors will decline to US$6.4 billion in 2009, a drop of 11% from 2008 and the first decline since 1997, according to Strategies Unlimited. However, the average...
Pixart Imaging will ship optical-touch solutions in small volumes in the third quarter, and expects the segment to be its major growth driver in 2010, according to the company.
Yageo has announced the release of its PF1206 ultra-low resistance current sensor designed for mini portable device applications. Featuring a resistance range of 1-50 milli-ohms and...
OmniVision Technologies has introduced the ultra-thin (3mm) high-performance video sensor, developed specifically to address the low-light sensitivity demand of the fast-growing notebook...
Samsung Electronics has revealed plans to ramp up the output of 8-inch wafers by 3,000-5,000 a month from August through December in order to meet increasing demand for high-end CMOS...
Samsung Electronics, in view of improved prospects for DRAM and NAND flash production in the third quarter, has shifted capacity from making CMOS image sensors (CIS) to making memory...
OmniVision will offer an inexpensive VGA CMOS image sensor (CIS), the 7675, for use in handsets or notebooks in September 2009, in a bid to recover lost global market share due to...
Motion sensing devices are not new. They have been used since the 1950s in the aerospace and defense field for navigation functions. MEMS versions of accelerometers and gyroscopes...
