I'm surprised there was no mention of the Kodak/IBM CMOS alliance.
<http://www.dpreview.com/news/0507/05071201kodak_cisdevices.asp>
Chuck Norcutt
Tim Hughes wrote:
> Interesting discussion of camera sensor vendors:
>
> http://lfw.pennnet.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ARCHI&C=Dept&ARTICLE_ID=243213&KEYWORDS=CCD&p=12&pc=ENL
>
>
> They estimate 50+ imager chip manufacturers, although many are
> fabless. (That is they design devices themselves, but get contract
> semiconductor "fabricators" to build. )
>
> Some like Kodak use both approaches: TMSC a large Taiwan fab makes
> the Kodak CMOS sensors, while kodak makes bipolar CCD's themselves.
>
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