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Image Sensor for Smartphone Cameras Boasts Industry-Best 48 MP, Says Sony

Sony plans to start sample shipments in September of the IMX586 stacked CMOS image sensor for smartphone cameras with the industry’s highest pixel count at 48 “effective” megapixels, enabling resolutions comparable with those of “high-performance SLR cameras,” said the company…

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Monday. The sensor also has a world-first ultra-compact pixel size of 0.8 microns, it said. Sony set a sample price of 3,000 yen ($27) per IMX586 device.