Posted on Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
IC content in new digital cameras keeps rising
Tekrati
The integrated circuit market for digital still cameras is expected to grow 8% to $6.4 billion in 2008 compared to $5.9 billion in 2007, based on IC Insights’ new forecast. Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) continue to be the dominate image-sensor technology in stand-alone digital cameras, but CMOS image sensors are gaining ground. In 2007, CMOS designs accounted for about 27% of the image sensors used in digital still cameras, compared to 16% in 2005. IC Insights believes CMOS image sensors in digital still cameras will pass up CCD units in the 2010 timeframe.
