Quad-Camera Handsets To Push CIS Sensors Sales

The global shipment of smartphone CMOS image sensors (CIS) is likely to reach 5 billion units this year as quad-camera smartphone designs witness great momentum despite the COVID-19 pandemic, says a report

The coronavirus pandemic has made a clear impact on the global smartphone industry, and the market is expected to be dragged down to the level of shipments in 2014, slightly over 1.3 billion units, representing a nearly 10% year-on-year decline in comparison to 2019.

However, as a beneficiary of the continuous improvement in technology and feature sets, the sales volume of CMOs image sensors (CIs) for smartphone applications increased eightfold over the past decade, reaching more than 4.5 billion units in 2019, shows a recent study by Counterpoint Research.