2014 Top 10 CMOS Image Sensor Manufacturers

The market of CMOS Image Sensor becomes monopoly competition pattern. The demand of China CMOS image sensor is approximate 1.9 billion pieces, it expected to reach 2.6 billion pieces in 2018. CMOS image sensor market appears to become monopolistic market, Sony, OV, Samsung, Galaxycore occupied more than 78% market share. The domestic CMOS image sensor industry is moving maturation stage, Galaxycore, SuperPix...and more CMOS designing corporation rapid rise. chip foundry has SMIC, packaging and testing firms have China Wafer Level CSP, Hua Tian Technology.

No. 1 OmniVision

Headquarter: USA
Business: Highly integrated CMOS imaging technology

No. 2 Sony

Headquarter: Japan
Business: Smartphone Camera, CMOS Image Sensor's R&D, manufacturing and marketing

No. 3 Aptina

Headquarter: USA
Business: High performance CMOS image sensor

No. 4 Samsung

Headquarter: Korea
Business: ISOCELL Sensor's research & development, manufacturing and marketing

No. 5 Galaxycore

Headquarter: Shanghai
Business: CMOS Image Sensor design and marketing

No. 6 Superpix Micro Technology Co., Ltd

Headquarter: Beijing
Business: CMOS image sensor and Image signal sensor R&D and marketing

No. 7 Panasonic

Headquarter: Japan
Business: Camcorder, CMOS image sensor and image signal processor R&D and marketing

No. 8 Hynix

Headquarter: Korea
Business: CMOS image sensor, Memory

No. 9 Himax

Headquarter: Taiwan
Business: Display drivers, CMOS image sensor R&D

No. 10 Toshiba

Headquarter: Japan
Business: Camera drivers, CMOS image sensor R&D