June 2015 ~ engineering information technology

Powerchip to Build 12-inch CIS Fab in China

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CTimes: Powerchip has signed a cooperation agreement with China Anhui Hefei government, to set up a joint venture “Hefei Jinghe”, a 12-inch fab located in Hefei with monthly production capacity of 40,000 wafers, with total investment of 13.53 billion yuan. The new joint venture will have 0.15um, 0.11um...

ESPROS Publishes its QVGA ToF Demo, Detailed Datasheet

ESPROS epc660 BSI ToF sensor is probably the world's only ToF device having its detailed datasheet (106 pages) openly available at the company's FTP site.ESPROS also publishes a Youtube video with a demo...

Sony to Raise ~$3.6 Billion to Invest in Stacked Sensor R&D and Production

Reuters: Sony announces its plans to raise $3.6 billion via new shares and bonds to expand stacked image sensor R&D and production. It's Sony's first new share issue in 26 years, worth close to a...

Dramatic Sea Ice Decline In Beaufort Sea in June 2015

The image below illustrates the dramatic fall in sea ice thickness (in m) in the Beaufort Sea over the past month. The left panel shows sea ice thickness on May 29, 2015, and the panel on the right shows...

Next iPhone Dual Camera Rumors

DPReview quotes Business Weekly Taiwan newspaper speculations that the next Apple iPhone might have a dual rear camera, similar to HTC M9+ and Huawei Honor 6+ phones. The original article talks about an interview with Largan CEO Linen Ping and the chances that Largan business would surge in future....

Plasmonic Color Filters Review

Glasgow University, UK thesis "Structured Photonic Materials for Multi-Spectral Imaging Applications" by Iain James Hugh McCrindle presents a nice overview of the progress in plasmonic and metamaterials-based...

IFTLE on Stacking Technology Progress

Insights From Leading Edge blog overviews image sensor stacking progress and recent publications. "Given the continued, aggressive stacked CIS development underway from independent device manufacturers...

Residential Solar Energy: Power to How Many People?

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Free Book on Photon Seeing

It came to my attention that The National Academies Press book "Seeing Photons: Progress and Limits of Visible and Infrared Sensor Arrays" (2010) is available for free download. The authors of the book...

Senior Piping Engineer (Specification/MTO) –AMEC Foster Wheeler Saudi Arabia

Job Title: Senior Piping Engineer (Specification/MTO) Country: Saudi Arabia Region: Al-Khobar Office Location: Al-Khobar Employment Type: Regular - Full Time Business Sector Oil & Gas Business Operation Middle East & Africa (& CIS) Business Stream/Area ...

Sony Fast 1-inch Sensor Videos

Imaging Resource posts a nice compilation of Sony 1-inch sensor 960fps slow motion videos. While other slow motion videos were published in the official RX100 and RX10 Sony playlist, these video clips have long advertisement tai...

DALSA TurboDrive Compresses Image Data on the Fly

Marketwired: Teledyne Dalsa presents TurboDrive, a proprietary and patent-pending data encoding technology that allows some DALSA GigE Vision cameras to achieve breakthrough speeds, increasing throughput...

Sharp Launches 14 New Progressive CCDs

Sharp keeps investing in CCD development, presenting 14 new products and few more marked "under developmen...

Accelerated Warming in the Arctic

Warming in the Arctic is accelerating. On June 25, 2015, high temperatures hit North America. Temperatures as high as 30.3°C (86.54°F) were recorded where the Mackenzie River is flowing into the Arctic...

Pixpolar MIG Pixel in Space Applications

ESA Technology Exchange: Pixpolar pixel has been considered for ESA space programs, although the original article only mentions "A Finnish company [that] has developed a new image sensor technology based on patented MIG (Modified Internal Gate) pixel architecture.""The Company has participated in the...

IISW 2015 Review: Stacked Sensors

Albert Theuwissen continues his IISW review, this time talking about stacked sensors from Omnivision, Sony, Olympus, TSMC, and N...

IISW 2015 Pictures

16-megapixel IISW 2015 group picture and few others are posted on the Workshop site. If participants have interesting photos to post they are welcome to email them to jsolhusvik@imagesensors.org to add...

Omnivision Released First C-PHY Image Sensors

PRNewswire: Tektronix names Omnivision among early adopters of the new MIPI C-PHY standard, published in September 2014. OmniVision's OV23850 and OV21840 20+ megapixel image sensors for smartphones have implemented the C-PHY 1.0 interface. Using Tektronix C-PHY Essentials analysis software, OmniVision...

e2v IISW 2015 Papers On-Line

e2v publishes its IISW 2015 papers on its web site:"Electron Multiplying Device Made on a 180 nm Standard CMOS Imaging Technology" by Pierre Fereyre, Frédéric Mayer, Mathieu Fournier, Clément Buton, Timothée...

Lead Piping Layout Engineer – WorleyParsons Dubai

Lead Piping Layout Engineer - ABU00C9 Company: WorleyParsons Primary Location : ARE-Dubai Job : Floating Systems Schedule : Full-time Employment Type: Staff Job Level: Experienced Job Posting : Jun 17, 2015 Unposting Date : Jul 17, 2015 Reporting Manager Title: Engineering Manager : WorleyParsons...

SP3D Piping Designer for Gurgoan

SP3D Piping Designers are required for Gurgoan location on 6 month extendable contract. position: SP3D piping designerExperience : 6 years+Contract Duration: 6 months extendable. If interested please forward your CV to rukhmini@aryasystems....

Sr.Piping Engineer For Petrofac Sharjah

Senior. Engineer – Piping (Materials) with 10+ years of experience in Oil & Gas sector. Interested, kindly email your CV to anithaflorence.s@petrofac.com or do refer. On permanent basis. Location: Shar...

IISW 2015 Review: Image Sensors for Photography

Albert Theuwissen continues his review of IISW 2015, now posting the part about image sensors for digital photography. This part talks about Samsung BSI APS-C sensor, Canon and Sony sensors with PDAF in every pixel, and DALSA large area C...

TowerJazz Manufactures Automotive Gated Image Sensors for BrightWay

GlobeNewsWire: TowerJazz announces that BrightWay Vision has chosen its TS18IS process to manufacture image sensors for its patented automotive cameras, specifically forward looking cameras in vehicles, to allow visibility in all weather conditions. BrightWay Vision has developed BrightEye, an advanced...

Pope Francis' Vision for a New Ecology

When the spiritual leader of the largest division of the Christian faith says something about climate change and the problems of technological progress, engineers of all faiths and no faith should take notice. Last Thursday, Pope Francis released his latest encyclical, Laudato...

Qualcomm Research Presents Intelligent Scene Detector

Qualcomm Research presents deep learning-based object recognition running on mobile device, powered by its Zeroth platfo...

UHDTV News: NHK 8K Compact Camera, PERSEUS Codec

DigiInfo TV publishes a video of a compact 8K camera and environment presented at NHK Open House days at the end of May:One of the biggest NHK challenges is implementing the high speed video processing...

Eric Fossum Papers at IISW 2015

Eric Fossum posts his papers presented at IISW 2015:L. Anzagira and E.R. Fossum, Color Filter Array Patterns Designed to Mitigate Crosstalk Effects in Small Pixel Image Sensors, in Proceedings of the 2015 International Image Sensor Workshop, Vaals, The Netherlands, June 8-12, 2015. L. Anzagira and E.R....

2015 IISW Recap by Chipworks

Chipworks image sensor analyst Ray Fontaine publishes his thoughts on IISW 2015 and related topics, and also covering some parts of Ray's paper at the Workshop. Few quotes:"As we head into the 3D integration...

Construction Mechanical & Piping Engineer – Mott MacDonlad Abu Dhabi

Job position Construction Mechanical & Piping Engineer Job Ref 20118BR Job Category Power Job Profile Mott MacDonald is a £1.2 billion management, engineering and development consultancy with 16,000 staff and a global reach spanning six continents. Our network of 180 principal offices in...

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IISW 2015 Review

Albert Theuwissen posts his brief review and impressions from IISW 2015 held in Vaals, Netherlands last week. "In conclusion : no major new technologies were introduced, neither any pixel size below 1 um, but everything is getting better in performance and more compact in siz...

SuperPix Presents "the First Excellent Price 8MP 1.12um BSI Pixel Sensor"

Beijing, China-based Superpix launches SP8408, "the first excellent price 8-megapixel CMOS image sensor chip, the product in the world’s leading automatic 12 inch BSI process line production, production...

2015 IISW Awards

Here is the list of the awards presented at last weeks IISW 2015:IISS Exceptional Lifetime Achievement AwardThis Award is made to a member of the image sensor community who has made substantial sustained and exceptional contributions to the field of solid-state image sensors over the course of their...

Occipital Reveals its Structure Sensor Internal Design

A high-profile Kickstarter company Occipital making a structured light 3D sensor integrated onto iPads or iPhone 6 back, presents its internal design in an Youtube vid...

Chipworks Publishes ST SPAD ToF Proximity Sensor Analysis

Chipworks has published ST VL6180 ToF proximity sensor reverse engineering repo...

Intel Acquires Smartglass Maker Recon Instruments

Intel has completed the acquisition of Vancouver, BC, Canada-based smartglass vendor Recon Instruments for an undisclosed amount. Intel has invested in Recon in 2013, and has a time to learn about the...

Mobileye and ADAS Market

SeekingAlpha publishes comments of Baron Capital's Ron Baron in CNBC appearance: 13 years of data-collection efforts related to driver-assistance technologies has given the company a "essentially a monopoly" position for its ADAS chips and software. "When there's a tilt in the road, these guys will...

Edwin Roks Becomes Teledyne DALSA COO

Business Wire: Teledyne announces the promotion of Edwin Roks to the position of Chief Operating Officer of Teledyne DALSA. Reporting to Rex Geveden, EVP of Teledyne and President of Teledyne DALSA, Roks will direct the operational activities of Teledyne DALSA and its digital imaging, medical, X-ray...

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