Shanghai Hua Hong NEC, a China-based provider of wafer foundry services, has been selected to be the sole maker of sensor IC admission tickets for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, with...
Continued uptake of cameras in handsets and notebooks is driving growth in the area-array image sensor market, reports In-Stat. Worldwide unit shipments of image sensors in cameraphones...
Despite the disastrous final months of 2008, semiconductor sales of optoelectronics, MEMS-based accelerometers, CMOS image sensors, power transistors, and overall discrete devices...
The gut-wrenching downturn in the global automotive industry has spurred the shutdown of Systron Donner Automotive, the world's second-largest supplier of car quartz micro-electromechanical...
CMOS image sensor makers have seen a warming up of image sensor orders for low-end traditional notebooks mostly from Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell. Order visibility extends until...
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...
Image sensor and MEMS-chip packaging house XinTec is expected to ship 300,000 wafer-level chip-scale packaging (WL-CSP) wafers in 2008, with shipments to gain more momentum in 2009,...
During the recently concluded CEATEC Japan 2008, Japan-based Murata Manufacturing used a unicycle-riding robot to guide visitors to its booth and highlight the company's products...
National Semiconductor claims the industry's first sensor signal path design tool that enables engineers to quickly move from concept to simulation to prototyping of common sensor...
Taiwan based contact image sensor module (CISM) maker Creative Sensor Incorporated (CSI) announced the opening of its US$30 million Nanchang plant in China. The company indicated...
After deciding to employ another 8-inch fab for CMOS image sensor production, Samsung Electronics is said to be shipping CMOS image sensor dies instead of wafers to its downstream...
Driven by new government mandates, global shipments of automotive micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors are expected to nearly double from 2006 to 2012, according to iSupp...
Following OmniVision's announced plan to grow its wafer starts amounts, industry watchers explained the move as being the company's strategy to regain its CMOS image sensor market...
Seti, a Korea-based CMOS image sensor maker, recently cut its average selling price (ASP) for VGA-resolution CMOS image sensors to below US$1 (US$0.7-0.8), posing a potential threat...
