Editor/Tide Electric Intelligence
 

 

The imaging arms race has entered a white-hot situation. Following Yiga's co-branding with Hasselblad and Vivo with Zeiss, Xiaomi Lei Jun said, "Imaging is a fusion of technology and aesthetics, and we are standing at the crossroads of technology and humanity" Xiaomi also announced an imaging strategic partnership with Leica.

 

But the pursuit of consumers is not only limited to getting a good shot, but gradually shifting to a good shot. Although this process may seem like a shift from hardware to software, more dependent on the 'computational photography' level of adjustment, but if there is no sufficient strength of the hardware to support the bottom, then 'computational photography' can not help.

 

 

In 2019 Xiaomi debuted the Samsung HMX 100 megapixel sensor, making the cell phone camera into the billion club.

 

In 2022, Motorola X30Pro with Samsung HP1200MP pixel was released, which means that the era of 200 million pixels officially kicked off.

 

In addition Tianfeng Securities senior Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo had issued a 'iPhone 14 Pro will take cell phone photography to a new level' exclamation. The iPhone, which insisted on 12 megapixels from the iPhone 6s, may also carry a custom 48 megapixel sensor on the iPhone 14 Pro series.

 

For this reason Tide Electric Intelligence has produced the following chart "Mainstream CMOS Brand High Pixel List" for better analysis and research of the high pixel CMOS market situation.

 

 

It is noteworthy that when TidePower Intelligence summarized the new models released in 2022 in the middle of the year, it found that the current brand terminals are all laid out in the 48M-64M pixel range, with 50MP being the most frequent in the main camera configuration.

 

Global cell phone CMOS shipment leader Gecko Micro in the high pixel 0.7um product development has also made significant progress, the latest 32M / 50M samples are being evaluated internally.

 

In addition, the security leader Stowe for the smartphone sector, was launched in March this year, its first 50MP ultra-high resolution 1.0m pixel size image sensor new SC550XS.

 

That said, if the ultra-high pixel really does not make sense, Huawei at first and Xiaomi to compete for the first 48 megapixel phone.

 

As the famous saying in the photography circle "the bottom of the big level crushes people to death"