This image, provided by Samsung Electronics Co. on Sept. 2, 2021, shows the company’s new mobile image sensor ISOCELL HP1.
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. remained in second place in the global smartphone image sensor market in the first half of the year, a report showed Tuesday, although its share declined from a year earlier.
Samsung captured a 25 percent revenue share in the first six months of the year, down from 32 percent a year ago, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics.
Sony dominated the market with a 42 percent revenue share, slightly down from 44 percent a year earlier, while OmniVision came in third with a 13 percent revenue share, up from 9 percent a year ago.
The worldwide smartphone image sensor market in the first half of 2021 recorded a revenue growth of more 10 percent on-year to reach US$7 billion.
“The image sensor vendors witnessed an accelerated momentum from smartphone OEMs, who actively adopted high-resolution CIS and low-pixel CIS products for multicamera applications, to secure inventory and cater to pent-up demand,” said Jeffrey Mathews, a senior analyst at Strategy Analytics.
“Sony, Samsung and OmniVision supplied key high-resolution CIS products to leading smartphone OEMs in H1 2021.”
(Yonhap)
