Sony leads global smartphone image sensor market

The smartphone image sensor market revenue size fell more than 5 percent to $6.4 billion in the first half of 2022, according to Strategy Analytics.
Sony Semiconductor Solutions has 44 percent revenue share in the global smartphone image sensor market. Sony drove its share in the market with partnerships with leading smartphone OEMs for large-sized and high-resolution image sensor products.

Samsung System LSI has 30 percent revenue share in the global smartphone image sensor market in the first half. Samsung led high-resolution demand by supplying 200MP CIS products to customers.

OMNIVISION has 9 percent revenue share in the global smartphone image sensor market in the first half. Omnivision saw share loss due to pandemic-induced customer disruptions in China.

Sony, Samsung and OMNIVISION captured nearly 83 percent revenue share in the global smartphone image sensor market. In terms of smartphone multi-camera applications, Image sensors for Depth and Macro applications dropped to 26 percent share while those for Ultrawide application jumped to 20 percent share.

The market for smartphone image sensors witnessed a slowdown in multicamera adoption owing to declining smartphone demand and inventory within the customer supply chain.