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Top 3 Vendors Own 80% Share of Smartphone Image Sensors: SA

Market leader Sony captured 41% share of the smartphone image sensor business valued at more than $7 billion in global first-half revenue, reported Strategy Analytics Monday. Industry revenue grew more than 10% year over year, it said. The top three…

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vendors -- Sony, Samsung and OmniVision -- had more than 80% share collectively. Introduction of high-resolution and large-format image sensors from major vendors is expected to boost market “revenue opportunities,” said analyst Stephen Entwistle: But “supply fluctuations” of high- and low-pixel image sensors “continue to challenge the growth prospects.”