Tuesday, October 19, 2004
The image sensor market has continued to show sharp growth over the past year, according to In-Stat/MDR Overall, the high-tech market research firm expects the image sensor market to grow at over 30% annually in unit terms through 2008, due primarily to rapidly growing shipments of digital still cameras, camera phones, and scanners.
Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) have benefited from the explosive growth of the digital still camera market, which nearly doubled in size from 2002 to 2003. Meanwhile, the market for Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors has grown primarily due to the rapid growth of camera phones, which have only been on the market since 2000, and in that time have grown to be the single most popular type of digital camera. Compared to CCDs, CMOS sensors offer a lower price, less power consumption, and the ability to integrate other functions on chip. These advantages are significant in the camera phone market. CMOS sensors have also been prized in other markets that emphasize low cost, including toy cameras, web cameras and dual-mode cameras.
By: DocMemory
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