Samsung plans to launch its 576MP camera sensor in four years

Jeet — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 05:52:19 +0000

Samsung was the world’s first company to launch a smartphone camera with a 108-megapixel sensor. Continuing the development, the South Korean giant unveiled the world’s first 200-megapixel smartphone camera sensor last week in the form of Samsung ISOCELL HP1.

Now, the company is working on another ambitious smartphone camera sensor — 600-megapixel which the company had revealed last year. However, this high megapixel count sensor isn’t launching anytime soon.

During a presentation at SEMI Europe Summit, Haechang Lee, Senior VP Automotive Sensor at Samsung Electronics revealed that the South Korean giant plans to launch its 576-megapixel camera sensor in 2025. The image was spotted by Image Sensors World.

Also, it appears that the 576MP camera sensor isn’t being developed for smartphones but the company is developing it for automobiles. It could also be used in drones and medical equipment but its use-case as a smartphone camera doesn’t appear to be a priority.

Last year, when Samsung confirmed that it’s working on a 600MP camera sensor, Yongin Park, Executive Vice President of Samsung’s Sensor Business talked about the company’s ambition of going beyond 500-megapixel which is equivalent to the human eye.

A few months ago, it was leaked that Samsung is developing a 600-megapixel camera sensor which features 0.8µm pixels and is 1/.0.57″ big. At the time, it was reported that the camera results in a 22mm bulge.

The South Korean company is also expanding the categories of its camera sensors usage from smartphones. It is now planning to provide camera sensors for several categories, including autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and IoT (Internet of Things) devices.

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Samsung plans to launch its 576MP camera sensor in four years