Counterpoint: Sony's smartphone camera sensor business is on the rise thanks to iPhone upgrades - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com

The smartphone marketplace shrunk successful 2022, which impacted the suppliers of representation sensors. Some fared amended than others though – Sony was the lone supplier to spot its gross turn connected a yearly basis.

And it was mostly acknowledgment to Apple upgrading the cameras connected the iPhone 14 series. The 2 Pro models brought caller 48MP sensors successful the main cameras and larger 12MP sensors successful the ultra wide cameras. The selfie cam connected each 4 models was upgraded with autofocus too. Apple exclusively uses Sony sensors, you tin spot the breakdown by camera benignant below:.

The Sony sensors wrong the past 2 generations of iPhones (source: Counterpoint BoM investigation service)

Adding it each together, Sony made an other $6 per portion for a full of astir $300 cardinal successful the 2nd fractional of 2022. The extremity effect is that Sony took successful 54% of the full gross for the year, up 5 percent points compared to 2021.

Samsung LSI did good for itself, adjacent though its gross stock contracted by 1 percent constituent to 29%. The institution raked successful the benefits of precocious resolution, tiny pixel size sensors (sub-0.7µm pixels).

The affordable 50MP sensors proved rather fashionable and Samsung shipped an estimated 200 cardinal of them successful 2022. These are utilized successful the main cameras of little extremity phones and successful the selfie cameras of much premium devices. The institution inactive dominates the 100+ megapixel sensor marketplace and shipped an estimated 150 cardinal units since it launched the archetypal one.

Last twelvemonth the smartphone representation sensor marketplace contracted by 6% compared to 2021, but the full gross remained supra $13 billion. Sony and Samsung took successful the lion’s stock of that, 83% successful total.

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