Toshiba Bows World's Smallest 13-Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor for Smartphones

Toshiba America Electronic Components bowed what it called the world’s smallest 13-megapixel CMOS image sensor for smartphones and tablets. The T4KB3 also reduces power consumption to 53 percent that of Toshiba's current 13-megapixel sensor, achieving 200 milliwatts or less of output at 30 frames per second. Toshiba used a “new design methodology” to engineer the T4KB3 and bring about the size and power-consumption improvements, it said. “This approach was developed to meet mobile product makers' continually increasing demand on chipmakers to produce CMOS sensors that can accommodate smaller form factors in tablets and smartphones,” it said. "Toshiba listened to, and worked closely with, customers to develop this latest breakthrough in CMOS image sensor design." The company said the T4KB3 sensor “was created to allow development of smaller, thinner camera modules that operate at low power while delivering the highest quality capture and playback of both still and video images.”