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SmartSens announces the SC1336, a 1/3-inch 1MP CMOS sensor for automotive applications, such as front-view cameras and surround view systems.
The new product uses SmartSens’ DSI-2 pixel with sensitivity of 12448 mV/lux·s. It also features PixGain technology and provides 11000 e- FWC.
The SC1336 comes in a 35-Pin CSP package and is currently available for sampling. It is expected to enter mass production in Q3 of 2021.
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Forbes reports that GalaxyCore Shanghai CEO Zhao Lixin (Stanly Zhao) became billionaire after the company’s shares more than doubled on their trading debut at the Shanghai Stock Exchange on August 18, 2021.
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CRN, Slashgear, Calcalist, Tom'sHardware, Verge: Multiple news outlets quote Intel spokesperson email saying: “We are winding down our RealSense business and transitioning our computer vision talent, technology and products to focus on advancing innovative technologies that better support our core businesses and IDM 2.0 strategy.
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, publishes an AIP paper "Photon management with superlattice for image sensor pixels" by Yuqing Cao, Zijian Zhang, and Ken Xingze Wang.
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AMS and Madeira University, Portugal, publish an MDPI paper "Design Improvements on Fast, High-Order, Incremental Sigma-Delta ADCs for Low-Noise Stacked CMOS Image Sensors" by Luis Miguel Carvalho Freitas and Fernando Morgado-Dias.
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OSA Optics Express publishes a paper "Broadband responsivity enhancement of Si photodiodes by a plasmonic antireflection bilayer" by Jongcheol Park, Il-Suk Kang, Gapseop Sim, Tae Hyun Kim, and Jong-Kwon Lee from National NanoFab Center and Cheongju University, Korea.
"Randomly distributed plasmonic Ag nanoparticles (NPs) with various sizes were fabricated by a reflow process to an island-shaped Ag thin-film deposited on a Si photodiode. These NPs conformally enclosed by an antireflective (AR)-type SiNx/SiO2 bilayer reveal significantly diminished reflectance in a broad wavelength (500 nm - 1100 nm) as compared to the cases of Ag NPs or SiO2 layer enclosing Ag NPs on the Si substrate. Accordingly, the forward scattering and the total reflection along with wide-angle interference in between the dielectric bilayer incorporating the Ag NPs induce highly increased light absorption in the Si substrate. The fabricated Si photodiode adopting the plasmonic AR bilayer shows the responsivity peak value of 0.72 A/W at 835 nm wavelength and significant responsivity enhancement up to 40% relative to a bare Si photodiode in a wavelength range of 500 nm to 1000 nm."
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Sony Japan announces two Sensing Solutions events: Ideaton and Hackaton. The two events seem to be centered on Sony AI board Spresense. Ideathon requires a document review only, while Hackathon requires implementation and demonstration on Spresense board. Participation is free.
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Yole Developpement publishes an update of its "Status of CMOS Image Sensor Industry 2021 report." Pierre Cambou, Principal Analyst, reports interesting observations:
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Nextchip demos its ISP capabilities:Image Sensors World Go to the original article...
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Tencent community news, Shanghai Securities News: Galaxycore stock has started trading at Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Board. The company has raised 3.593 billion yuan ($555M), including about 30% of the strategic placement.
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Taiwan National Tsing Hua University publishes a paper "A Graphene/Polycrystalline Silicon Photodiode and Its Integration in a Photodiode–Oxide–Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor" by Yu-Yang Tsai, Chun-Yu Kuo, Bo-Chang Li, Po-Wen Chiu, and Klaus Y. J. Hsu.
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ON Semi publishes its Financial Analyst Day presentation with few slides devoted to image sensors. The new CEO Hassane El-Khoury unveils the new strategy of growth based on Intelligent Sensing and Intelligent Power. The company gradually exits other non-core low-margin businesses.
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GlobeNewswire: Himax Q2 2021 earnings report updates on the company's low power vision solution design wins:
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Smartsens announces SC301IoT sensor implementing SFCPixel technology. It has 0.9e- RN and 0.3e- FPN with full-color night vision. The SC301IoT utilizes SmartSens’ PixGain technology to improve the FWC by 124% and DR by 5 dB compared to the previous generations of the product. It also supports up to 100dB Staggered HDR and reduces blooming to 15% (not sure what 15% means.)
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ON Semi publishes Q2 2021 report. Intelligent Sensing Group registers a nice 28% YoY growth. However, other groups' sales grew even more and image sensor proportion of the business dropped to 13%:
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SeekingAlpha: Tower Q2 2021 earnings call transcript talks about a 30% YoY CIS sales increase in the last quarter:
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Sony reports its image sensor business quarterly results. The sales and profits grew YoY recovering from COVID impact. However, the company revises its FY2021 sales forecast by 3% downwards due to the lower mobile sensor sales and less favorable product mix:
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The paper submission deadline for Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices on Solid-State Image Sensors is extended to September 30, 2021. The updated Call for Papers is published on IISS site and will be published soon on IEEE site too:
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Intel Corporate VP Sagi Ben Moshe responsible for Realsense is leaving the company, according to his LinkedIn message:
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MIPI BoD directed its working groups to replace the offensive terms in MIPI documents. While the primary examples were “master” and “slave,” the groups were also asked to identify any other problematic words, such as “blacklist” and ”whitelist” for example, and work to replace them till the end of 2022.
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BusinessWire: An Imec spin-off Spectricity announces a €14M ($16M US) Series B funding round to accelerate the development and mass production of hyperspectral sensors and imagers for high-volume, low-cost applications from wearables to smartphones and IoT devices.
“I am pleased to see Spectricity growing and closing their second financing round, three years after its creation as imec spin-off,” said Luc Van den hove, President and CEO of imec. “Spectricity’s products are based on unique imec technology, and we will continue to maintain a strong link between our R&D and Spectricity’s development to enable a lasting competitive edge for Spectricity’s products.”
Following more than 10 years of research at imec, Spectricity was founded in 2018 by a team including research engineers of imec. CEO Vincent Mouret who joined the company last April and Chairman of the Board, Pieter Vorenkamp, ex-SVP of Broadcom, helped to productize the technology and scale the company.
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Sony ISSCC 2021 Forum 5 presentation "Evolving Image Sensor Architecture through Stacking Devices" by Yusuke Oike is published on-line. A small subset is below:
