"The new report recognizes the following companies as the key players in the Mobile Image Sensor Market in China: Aptina Imaging Corp., OmniVision Technologies Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sony Semiconductor Corp.
Other Prominent Vendors in the market are: Canon, GalaxyCore, LG Innotek, Panasonic Corporation, Sharp, Sharpvision, SiliconFile, Sunny Optical Technology, STMicroelectronics and Toshiba.
Further, the report states that one of the main challenges that are hindering the growth of this market is the high cost of production because of the high cost of raw materials. The cost of producing image sensors is increasing yearly because of the R&D expenditure incurred by vendors and also because of the marketing costs."
