iPhones use Sony camera sensors
Tim CookApple’s CEO admitted in a tweet that the company has been using camera sensors for more than a decade Sony In phones Iphone Uses.
Cook wrote in his tweet:
“We’ve been working with Sony for more than a decade to create world-leading camera sensors for iPhone.”
He went on to thank Sony CEO Kenchiro Yoshida for showing him the plant in Kumamoto. The tweet also includes an interesting image (pictured below) of the Sony team showing Cook an iPhone.
Disclosure of iPhone camera specifications
Notably, Apple rarely talks about the specifics of the iPhone’s hardware components, so the confirmation that the company has been using Sony camera sensors since a decade ago is significant.
Apple on your website Instead of the specific components used, it only details the specs of each iPhone’s camera, such as its resolution, aperture, and field of view.
However, several reports over the past few years have pointed to Apple’s use of Sony hardware. Wall street Journal In a report in 2015, it was mentioned that Apple uses two Sony sensors in the iPhone 6 and iFixit He also mentioned specific Sony models in his autopsies.
According to the report Nikkei AsiaSony is known as the leader in the image sensor market and until last year it had 44% of the CMOS image sensor market share. Samsung is in second place with 18.5% market share.
Tim Cook’s visit to the Sony factory shows that the cooperation between the two companies will continue and also Nikkei Asia In his recent report, he has provided clues about their future collaborations. According to this report, Sony is said to have developed a new image sensor that uses a new semiconductor architecture to absorb more light and reduce overexposure and underexposure. The new sensor is expected to be used in the next generation of Apple iPhones, but it will also be available from other manufacturers.