Samsung aims to make a 600MP camera sensor that beats the human eye

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Samsung is a major game-changer in the field of camera sensor development and production.

In an editorial on the company’s website, Yongin Park, head of the sensor business team at Samsung, publicize that the future target is a 600MP sensor that will provide more detail than the human eye can see.

It was the first company to admit 64MP and 108MP sensors for consumer smartphones, and the company believes this is just a start.

To get there, Samsung is expanding ways to fill a large number of megapixels into smaller sensors. The company is applying ‘Nonacell technology’ which uses a 3 × 3-pixel structure compared to the standard 2x2 array.

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Can 600MP camera fit into a smartphone?

Of course, the 600MP camera sensor can be introduced manually, but it will be absurdly huge and won’t fit into a smartphone and that’s where the question begins.

One method to do this is to shrink the pixel size - HM1 and HMX sensors have 0.8μm pixel size, which was recently available smaller. Samsung then admitted the sensor based on 0.7μm pixels and hopes it can take the shrink further.

Sensors that go beyond human senses will soon become an integral part of our daily lives #ImageSensors #Nonacell #ISOCELLhttps://t.co/bsElHifrEC

— SamsungNewsroomIN (@SamsungNewsIN) April 21, 2020

when can it be expected?

Mr. Park has not committed to any target date but noticing the current developments, the 600 MP module may come sooner than we thought.

The bit news comes amid reports that we will likely see a 256MP camera by the end of this year.

Samsung also developing sensors that can register smell or taste

In the post, Samsung also describes that it's not only growing the size of the sensor for future cameras but also developing new technologies that can fundamentally change how we deal with the world around us in the future.

"We are not only generating image sensors, but we are also investigating other types of sensors that can register aroma or taste. Sensors that go beyond human sensation will soon become an integral part of our daily lives, And we're excited that potentially such sensors should create the invisible visible and help people go further what our own senses are capable of," said by Yongin Park.