Tuesday December 13, 2022 1:51 americium PST by

Tim Cook contiguous publically paid tribute to Sony's semipermanent concern with Apple successful creating cutting-edge camera sensors for successive iPhone models for implicit a decade.

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In a tweet posted during his sojourn to Sony's camera improvement installation successful Kumamoto, Japan, Cook acknowledged the company's palmy concern with Apple to make "the world's starring camera sensors for ‌iPhone‌," and thanked the squad astatine the installation for showing him around.

Apple doesn't usually uncover the circumstantial makers of the hardware components that it uses successful iPhones, but its usage of Sony camera hardware has agelong been known by adjacent followers of the company's proviso chain.

Apple reportedly used Sony's camera sensor for the iPhone 6, and consequent hardware teardowns by the likes of iFixit person identified Sony-made components successful successive ‌iPhone‌ models.

Cook's tweet suggests Apple's concern with Sony remains strong, and rumors to that effect already awesome the Japanese company's contributions to aboriginal Apple products. For example, According to a November study from Nikkei, adjacent year's iPhone 15 models volition beryllium equipped with Sony's newest "state of the art" representation sensors.

Compared to modular sensors, Sony's representation sensor doubles the saturation awesome successful each pixel, allowing it to seizure much airy to chopped down connected underexposure and overexposure. Nikkei said that it is capable to amended photograph a person's look adjacent with beardown backlighting.

We’ve been partnering with Sony for implicit a decennary to make the world’s starring camera sensors for iPhone. Thanks to Ken and everyone connected the squad for showing maine astir the cutting-edge installation successful Kumamoto today. pic.twitter.com/462SEkUbhi — Tim Cook (@tim_cook) December 13, 2022

Apple is moving connected a periscope telephoto lens that volition amended the ‌‌iPhone 15‌‌ Pro's optical zoom capabilities, allowing for up to 10x optical zoom to lucifer immoderate Android smartphones that are connected the market. The Sony representation sensor exertion would apt beryllium utilized for the Wide camera that Apple considers the ‌iPhone‌'s "main" camera arsenic Apple typically uses antithetic exertion for each lens.

Also for adjacent year, Sony is expected to proviso Apple with an OLED connected silicon (OLEDoS) – besides known arsenic micro-OLED – show for the company's first-generation mixed-reality headset.

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