CMOS image sensor (CIS) vendors will ship over 3.8 billion units by 2010 and acrue more than $23 billion in revenue. Revolution - consumer products, to HD such as cameraphone, DSC and digital video
June 16, 2006 (Press Release) --
Belmont, Calif. - 6-16-06 – A new, affordable industry report from the The Imerge Group entitled CIS Sensors: At the Vortex of InfoImaging indicates that CMOS image sensor (CIS) vendors will ship over 3.8 billion units by 2010 and acrue more than $23 billion in revenue. The report states that a select group of CIS providers are right now in the design-in process with device vendors and are providing better over-all image quality than same-scale CCD's for consumer devices such as cameraphones, digital still cameras and digital camcoders.
According to Imerge Group principal Ron Tussy, "by Q-4, 2006 the sweet spot of 5 mega-pixel consumer still cameras will be in the range of $149 to $199 at retail from branded DSC vendors, resulting in a unit cost of about $38 to the vendor. This leaves no room whatsoever in the BOM for expensive CCD's and vendors will be forced to encorporate lower-cost CIS units into that BOM. These branded vendors would never think of doing this though, unless these new CIS's are on-par in image quality and sensitivity with CCD's, due to the potential negative effect on their brand, built over the last 80 years."
"New industry-changing architectures in CIS's are going to revolutionize market requirements in consumer products, starting in Q-4 this year and beyond and we are going to see HD (high-definition) become the new buz word in consumer image capture sectors such as cameraphone, DSC and digital video. In about two years, cameraphones will be providing HD resolution video as well as 5 MP still capture resolutions, with quality on-par or better than current DSC's with CCD's. Consumer digital still cameras will have much higher frame rates of up to 60 FPS, higher resolution and a very high dynamic range and this will also change the way consumers capture still images, pulling the precise moment in time out of numerous frames to chose from, states Tussy. "
According to the new report, these new process technologies and architectures are allowing a more open photodiode (pixel well), utilizing transistor sharing, detection amp sharing, multi-sampling and dark current and reset noise abatement methods. As a result, a select few CIS vendors are now providing increased sensitivity, higher signal-to-noise output and higher dynamic range than previously thought possible. These new architectures allow smaller pixel sizes (1.4 to 1.75 micron) resulting in smaller form-factor sensors from the same dye size without loss of sensitivity.
The report details 20 application areas that will be effected by these new sensor designs, provides WW and geo unit, ASP and revenue forecasts out to 2010 and provides a SWOT analysis of those companies positioned with industry-changing architectures and process technologies, poised to lead this revolution. The report details new sectors that will provide the mega apps for CIS and logic vendors from 2010 and beyond. The report is available at www.imergeconsulting.com and for the next two weeks, starting June 16, is being offering at an unheard of discount rate of only $500!
www.imergeconsulting.com
Tel: 650-631-5737
Email: tussy@ix.netcom.com
According to Imerge Group principal Ron Tussy, "by Q-4, 2006 the sweet spot of 5 mega-pixel consumer still cameras will be in the range of $149 to $199 at retail from branded DSC vendors, resulting in a unit cost of about $38 to the vendor. This leaves no room whatsoever in the BOM for expensive CCD's and vendors will be forced to encorporate lower-cost CIS units into that BOM. These branded vendors would never think of doing this though, unless these new CIS's are on-par in image quality and sensitivity with CCD's, due to the potential negative effect on their brand, built over the last 80 years."
"New industry-changing architectures in CIS's are going to revolutionize market requirements in consumer products, starting in Q-4 this year and beyond and we are going to see HD (high-definition) become the new buz word in consumer image capture sectors such as cameraphone, DSC and digital video. In about two years, cameraphones will be providing HD resolution video as well as 5 MP still capture resolutions, with quality on-par or better than current DSC's with CCD's. Consumer digital still cameras will have much higher frame rates of up to 60 FPS, higher resolution and a very high dynamic range and this will also change the way consumers capture still images, pulling the precise moment in time out of numerous frames to chose from, states Tussy. "
According to the new report, these new process technologies and architectures are allowing a more open photodiode (pixel well), utilizing transistor sharing, detection amp sharing, multi-sampling and dark current and reset noise abatement methods. As a result, a select few CIS vendors are now providing increased sensitivity, higher signal-to-noise output and higher dynamic range than previously thought possible. These new architectures allow smaller pixel sizes (1.4 to 1.75 micron) resulting in smaller form-factor sensors from the same dye size without loss of sensitivity.
The report details 20 application areas that will be effected by these new sensor designs, provides WW and geo unit, ASP and revenue forecasts out to 2010 and provides a SWOT analysis of those companies positioned with industry-changing architectures and process technologies, poised to lead this revolution. The report details new sectors that will provide the mega apps for CIS and logic vendors from 2010 and beyond. The report is available at www.imergeconsulting.com and for the next two weeks, starting June 16, is being offering at an unheard of discount rate of only $500!
www.imergeconsulting.com
Tel: 650-631-5737
Email: tussy@ix.netcom.com
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