We have not told you that Samsung has broken its own record by officially presenting the ISOCELL HP1 sensor, intended for mobile phones and with a 200-megapixel resolution. Well, the Korean would already have her sights set on increasing that resolution much more and launching in 2025 a photographic captor for mobile phones with the stratospheric figure of 576 megapixels.
According to DPReview, the “revelation” took place at the SEMI Europe Summit conference, which took place in Berlin earlier this month. In her, Haechang Lee, Samsung’s senior vice president and director of automotive sensors, presented a slide (below) showing the history of the company’s imaging sensor technology.
If you look closely, to the far right on the timeline you can see how the company’s ambition is to have a 576 MP sensor available in the next four years. Of course, the aforementioned 200 MP captor does not appear in the graph since it had not yet been made official when this act was held.
In any case, it seems that if anyone thought that the megapixel war was over, it is clear that one of the main manufacturers in the field he is not willing to do it. The truth is that, as discussed in DPReview, the figure seems ridiculous but it is no less true that Samsung has already declared its intention to develop sensors with resolutions of about 500 Mpixels, which would be equivalent to the effective resolution of the human eye.
On the other hand, we already tell you how those high pixel figures are not real and that, rather, the idea is to take advantage of them to obtain better images by reducing the resolution thanks to pixel binning. In any case, it seems that the immediate future will continue to be very interesting in the field of mobile photography (and that the “mega-pixel war” will continue).
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