OmniVision Develops Sensor To Improve Camera Phones

In a development that may provide a significant improvement in camera-phone picture quality, semiconductor maker OmniVision Technologies Inc. said it has developed a "radically different" image sensor that can squeeze many more pixels on a tiny chip.

The new technology will allow cellphone makers to offer resolution comparable to that found in the latest digital cameras. But will probably be several years before the new chips appear in lower-end handsets.

[via The Wall Street Journal]

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