How do you like your current camera? What is it? A 3.2 megapixels phone? A 5 megapixels 5 years old camera? A new 8 megapixels Sony Ericsson mobile phone? A whooping 12 megapixels camera? Do you need more megapixels? How about the 50 megapixels camera from Kodak?
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So what, say you? Well, developing the market’s smallest single-chip camera sensor means that phones even thinner than thinnest ones you see today could be developed in the near future. This latest chip called the VD6725, measures 1/5th of an inch with UXGA active pixel array. The new optical format imaging sensor is so small, it can fit inside a mobile phone with the dimensions of 0.2×0.2×0.15 inches! That’s so, SO much less than a half-inch, peeps. The VD6725 can produce video stream at 30fps at VGA resolution and 15fps at UXGA resolution. The chip is now available through ST’s Through Silicon Via (TSV) wafer-level package or as a Chip On Board (COB) die, and costs around US$2 per unit.

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